Converted in Camera Raw and adjusted in PhotoShop CS3 with these tools: Shadow/highlight, rotate, crop, curves, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, NoiseNinja and USM.
I have to tell you the truth, this is not a real pollution because this is a geothermal power plant. All you see from the chimneys is just hot steam from the earth.
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excellent job capturing the "translucent" smoke. addition of reflection was a very good touch. why did not you try increasing the saturation? did you want to keep the mood of the photo a bit rough/dirty, instead of pretty, to fit the theme more appropriately?
I like this picture a lot, but the bright blue sky to the tons of clouds really throws me off. I think maybe making the whole sky blue could help. And i like the reflection
I like the contrast from beautiful sky right to polluted sky left. I'm not sure if its a product of the shadow/highlights process, but something doesn't look right along the bottom of the photo. It's blotchy compared to the rest of the image.
Really brave choice of lighting, using it to create silhouette-ish subject .. I love the sky this creates with the smoke but I can almost see interesting details around of the base of the building and it makes me want to see more..
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