RiccardoMantero
FollowA cloud explosion over the mexican caribbean Sea.
A cloud explosion over the mexican caribbean Sea.
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KIRWAN
July 10, 2014
Powerful, beautiful and magnificent. A true masterpiece. Many well deserved congrats.
akhtarkhan
July 10, 2014
Great result using ultra wide angle lens.......well done.Congrats on the feature.
CappyGirl
July 15, 2014
Stunning capture of an approaching storm front, love that dark sky against the clarity of the water!
Pat-ographYOU
September 20, 2014
When nature performs, to be ready to shoot is so fragile a time. You handled this so delicately, composure of you and your pic',=TOP DRAWER!
babspictures
October 12, 2014
"I'm the beginning and the end. Are you listening." YOU were called to capture this moment. How blessed!
fawnnicoleklaver
January 18, 2015
this is a really sweet photo what do u all recommend is the best camra out right now I have a Nikon d3000 but looking to upgrade .
RhondaMcD
March 06, 2015
I was going to say Poof…but I saw the title of your photo and well, you say it better. Congratulations.
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Location
In Mexico, during one of my travels I was visiting Isla Holbox, a small Island in the gulf of Mexico. A really dreamy place.Time
Was almost midday, or just few minutes after.Lighting
Yes, I had to use a polarizer to reduce the reflection of the water and then gain some contrast in the clouds. I shoot 2 stops under the camera suggested exposure which was measured on the grey part of the cloud, everything in manual mode with the VR activated.Equipment
A Nikon D800, freehand, with a Nikkor 16-35 F/4 wideangle lens, and a B+W Polarizer filterInspiration
I was bathing when I started to observe this giant cloud forming on the Mexican coast and coming toward us, then I did a run to my hotel room to grab the camera and frame it.Editing
Yes, the image is an HDR resulting from 5 differente exposures, all exposures are done with a 1Ev interval and all of them are done freehand. I've used Photomatix pro to combine them and Apple Aperture for the final touches.In my camera bag
A MacBook Pro, An iPad Air 128Gb, A Nikon D800 as main body and a secondary camera body (it was a D300 but soon will be a D810), a Nikon 16-35 F/4 Wide angle, a Nikon 24-70 F/2.8 Zoom, and a Nikon 70-200 f/4 zoom, A 77mm B+W Polarizer filter, a Manfrotto 190CX Pro 4 Tripod, 2 hard disks for backup, 10 Memory cards (5SD and 5CF), and a Sigma 15mm fisheye. Ah! Yes and a GoPro hero black edition, if I go underwater, but soon will buy an underwater case for the D800. Really, I travel very heavy...Feedback
The best advice I can give is to bring always a good polarizer filter, and a really good one, don't save money on such kind of filter. Never, the Nikon Technician have spent lot of time in balancing your lenses, placing a low cost filter over them will waste their work, your work, and your lens. The polarizer is mandatory for this kind of photography, it can strongly improve the contrasts, reveal a lot of small details (due to contrast) and remove the water or other shiny surfaces reflections (if needed) like skin, glasses, foliage. It will help to achieve strong and well saturated colors. In second instance, I always shot 1 or 2 stops lower than the suggested exposure, to avoid burnt or over exposed whites and high-lights. In this kind of photo it is important to avoid white holes in the sky.