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Mississippi powerstation

© Peter W. Marks

Mississippi powerstation

Uploaded: November 10, 2013

Description

1/1000sec; f4.5; 200 ISO; 70mm fl

Comments

Dale Hardin November 10, 2013

Nice reflection Peter. Because of that reflection, the center weighted comp works well. The tones of the image are interesting and reminiscent of film from the 50's. What WB did you use? #1552105

Peter W. Marks November 11, 2013

Good morning Dale and thank you. Yesterday E and I drove a few miles up the Great River Rd to have lunch at Grafton and chose a bar/restaurant that had an upper deck that looked out across the river. Not a breath of wind as you can see from the steam rising from the power station stack and a beautifully warm sunny Nov afternoon.
A toasted beef sandwich each and a couple of large glasses of craft IPA ale for the non-driver, me, and perhaps this was God's reward for having spent a few hours at church in the morning, praising Him.
But to try to answer your question, I shoot in raw with the WB set more or less permanently at around 5400K. That was about right for the conditions but I wanted a slightly warmer sunset look so tweaked the image in post. With seven or eight sliders to play with I just went for it and have no idea what I finally settled for! I spent way more time, um, like 45 secs, straightening the darned smoke stack (actually 'steam' as this is a nuclear power station) so that our friend Dale couldn't pick at that; over-sharpened it, cropped it and what you see is what you get! And this is why I never get POTD, Finalist or any of that good stuff!
But Dale, just to show willing, I shot some grunge on the river bank while at Grafton but will keep those till later.
#10895984

Jeff E Jensen November 11, 2013

How was the sandwich?

Great work, Peter. #10895992

Peter W. Marks November 11, 2013

Very tasty Jeff!
And for Dale, here is just a tiny portion of the mess that gets washed off the river bank.
#10896194

Peter W. Marks November 11, 2013

Very tasty Jeff!
And for Dale, here is just a tiny portion of the mess that gets washed off the river bank.
#10896196

Peter W. Marks November 11, 2013

Very tasty Jeff!
And for Dale, here is just a tiny portion of the mess that gets washed off the river bank.
#10896197

Kalena Randall November 12, 2013

Love the reflections in this, Peter! #10897266

Michael Kelly level-deluxe November 12, 2013

Great calm day for this shot achieving the vertical plume of steam and it’s nice reflection. #10897393

Peter W. Marks November 13, 2013

Thank you Kalena and Mike. Sorry about the three attempts to do a simple upload of the trash image. Because I only try to upload into the middle of a thread on rare occasions I always seem to do something wrong and end up with these duplicates. On other forums I have used one can delete these errors but on BP, arguably one of the most commercially orientated photo websites the owner appears to see no profit in doing this for its members.
OK, my meds are making me a tad grouchy this early on a cold morning but I do remember BP having been asked to provide this facility in the past but cannot recall any response. #10897640

Debbie E. Payne November 13, 2013

I like the color in your original shot. Looks like for all that trash that you should have had Rita's bear around for the clean-up but maybe is too picky to do trash!!! #10898086

Beth Spencer November 14, 2013

I really like the reflection and the way the smoke is rising. I am also glad you got to spend the day with your wife and had a Great Lunch! #10899057

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