The image looks really good, with a wide variety of colors as well as a strong display of depth in the cloud plane. It does, however, need one last little thing that is tough for photographers to get around, particularly those who work in a digital medium. There's a program called Neat Image. It's a free download, very small, and it's an easy program that would really benefit a picture like this by reducing the amount of noise in the clouds. It's a program that I use myself, and I very highly reccomend it to all digital photographers regardless of their subject matter.

You can find it here: [link]

Everything else looks pretty good. I especially like the emphasis on the clouds by keeping the eye level closer to the bottom of the view. It just gives so much more majesty to the sky, making it more potent. The depth of those blues, regardless of whether they were natural or Photoshopped, really give strength to the shadows of the clouds. It shows that shadows look much better through affecting hue, not tone. A lot of people, when painting their image, think shadows are black. Therefore, they'll use black on everything. However, they don't use anything to cool the color down, so the shadow looks akward. In this image, the warm sunlight is contrasted by a good use of blue hues to really make the clouds dynamic and inspiring.

This is what I'd consider to be a genuinely good sky photograph.

another great picture iain, fantastic heavy sky - refledt how u were feeling?

wow, thanks for all the information, i'll be sure to check out that programme, noise in clouds really is a pain so thats a great help

That's such a beautiful photo... one of my fave places in the world too

glad you like it xx

beautiful! I love the yellow field, just visible behind the bridge!

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