One of a sequence of shots as those clouds blew past the tower.
I was going to use one where the tower just fit over the cloud, lined up really well, but I decided I liked the feel of impending action implied by the gap and the motion. Combined with the projections on the antenna looking as if they're prepared to fend off the onrushing cloud, it adds an element of conflict to a rather simple composition.
Note: according to Photoshop, the top part of the tower is exactly vertical, although it looks to me as if it's leaning to the right.
Editing steps:
-RGB, Blue, and Green Curves.
-Rotate 0.24 degrees, crop to original size
-Resize for DPC
-Noise Reduction applied with PictureCooler using:
---Color De-noise = 0.8
---Open Space De-noise = 0.8
---Refocus Level = 0.4
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH=0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH=7
-Add three-pixel black stroke
-SaveAs JPEG quality = 10/10
I didn't do any dodging or burning, although these clouds are a likely candidate -- especially to fix the blown-out bits of cloud -- but I'm trying to edit less in general, and I wanted to see how this would do without it.
Note: processing through the noise-reduction program (and a tiny bit less sharpening in the first step) reduced the file size from 131k to 85k, and ultimately allowed me to increase the JPEG quality level.
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moving the mast a bit to the left would have helped the balance. the big empty blue space lends disproportionate weight to the whole left side such that breaking the rule of thirds is merited.
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