May 29, 2018
What a rain in coast. A thunderous pre-monsoon rains morphed our village to river. An ideal time to be in village listening to blustering rains, beholding the roaring downpour with a sip of coffee & golibaje. After savaging the region for nearly 6hrs, the floods ensued. The fields were marooned. Hopefully the troposphere thaws in couple of days.
It has been unprecedented rains in coastal Karnataka with rain gauge crossing 350mm mark within a span of 12hrs. A well marked low-pressure area off the coast of Arabian sea resulted in heavy nimbus clouds barging into the land. In a jiffy the heavens roared with thick droplets of rain over the coastal regions swamping in matter of 3hrs. The unabated rains that lasted for nearly 9hrs inundated Mangalore & unabated like never before. The freakish clouds did not disappear until completely dissipated and deluged the region. The insatiable rains crumbled with mighty power morphing the cities to artificial rivers. Mangalore city was virtually hijacked for 5hrs by the roaring troposphere stalling the life of the citizens. When the troposphere thawed, city was in deep shambles mocking the incumbents.
Back to topic, here in Bangalore, it was all clear. The effect of rains could be felt by cool breeze, azure skies and intermittent moisture-less clouds. I was at Rachenahalli lake and the sky looked splendid. The Sunlight was perfect like studio setup to shoot landscape facing it. I shot couple of pictures to quench my photo hunt. Unfortunately, the pictures did not turn out good. Ironically, last time I lamented for not turning on HDR but this time its opposite. The HDR mode did not work out, Why? Look at the pictures :(. They are either blown out or had dull colors. The beauty was stunning, the exposure was perfect but the only mistake I did was turning on mobile camera HDR. There was no need for HDR when nature comes up with perfect crystal light. I did not realize while shooting but as I reached home, the picture did not impress me :(. I was late again. Mistakes are often great teachers. This time too I had a lesson. Even though, I did not shoot HDR off, from past experiences I am confident picture would have been perfect without any HDR settings.
All these are deliberately unedited to show how highlights are blown out and colors turned artificial. The actual colors were excellent but above ones bear vintage look. Rejigging the images will make them fine but that day exposure of Sun was perfect. A non-HDR shot would have done the job with couple of simple edits. The above image needs too many level/color corrections.
What a rain in coast. A thunderous pre-monsoon rains morphed our village to river. An ideal time to be in village listening to blustering rains, beholding the roaring downpour with a sip of coffee & golibaje. After savaging the region for nearly 6hrs, the floods ensued. The fields were marooned. Hopefully the troposphere thaws in couple of days.
It has been unprecedented rains in coastal Karnataka with rain gauge crossing 350mm mark within a span of 12hrs. A well marked low-pressure area off the coast of Arabian sea resulted in heavy nimbus clouds barging into the land. In a jiffy the heavens roared with thick droplets of rain over the coastal regions swamping in matter of 3hrs. The unabated rains that lasted for nearly 9hrs inundated Mangalore & unabated like never before. The freakish clouds did not disappear until completely dissipated and deluged the region. The insatiable rains crumbled with mighty power morphing the cities to artificial rivers. Mangalore city was virtually hijacked for 5hrs by the roaring troposphere stalling the life of the citizens. When the troposphere thawed, city was in deep shambles mocking the incumbents.
Back to topic, here in Bangalore, it was all clear. The effect of rains could be felt by cool breeze, azure skies and intermittent moisture-less clouds. I was at Rachenahalli lake and the sky looked splendid. The Sunlight was perfect like studio setup to shoot landscape facing it. I shot couple of pictures to quench my photo hunt. Unfortunately, the pictures did not turn out good. Ironically, last time I lamented for not turning on HDR but this time its opposite. The HDR mode did not work out, Why? Look at the pictures :(. They are either blown out or had dull colors. The beauty was stunning, the exposure was perfect but the only mistake I did was turning on mobile camera HDR. There was no need for HDR when nature comes up with perfect crystal light. I did not realize while shooting but as I reached home, the picture did not impress me :(. I was late again. Mistakes are often great teachers. This time too I had a lesson. Even though, I did not shoot HDR off, from past experiences I am confident picture would have been perfect without any HDR settings.
All these are deliberately unedited to show how highlights are blown out and colors turned artificial. The actual colors were excellent but above ones bear vintage look. Rejigging the images will make them fine but that day exposure of Sun was perfect. A non-HDR shot would have done the job with couple of simple edits. The above image needs too many level/color corrections.
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