Recently I’ve been mentioning the weather quite often on this blog, perhaps because weather does have a significant influence on the mood of a picture. This weekend I had hoped to capture a typical May image of a bright sunlit field of yellow rapeseed with a backdrop of dark rain clouds. Not to be I’m afraid. No shortage of rain clouds, but sunshine was in short supply, giving the clouds a dreary grey appearance instead of the dramatic darkness I had hoped for. Not to be put off by a drop or two of rain I ventured out this morning with wellies, hat and Barbour jacket and came home with the following images. Shooting both RAW and JPG, I tried to reproduce the desired dark skies in the first image by applying a graduated filter with RawTherapee before doing the usual adjustments in Gimp…. I think I need a bit of practice.
