I was not the only one who tried to capture the magic of this sun-filled anvil cloud, hanging in the sky to the north last night. I saw other fellow photographers pointing their lens in this direction during our night shooting event. First I tried it with the wide angle lens between 16 and 35 mm but had the feeling there were too many other things present that distracted from the subject. I found my way to tell the story about a hot summer night in the Midwest by zooming in to 105 mm and leaving just a small sliver of prairie and trees in the frame to give it some sense of place.
A sign and a small part of a bright concrete trail were removed with “content-aware fill” in Adobe Photoshop. This function has greatly improved since one of the last updates and is a very powerful tool for “romancing” a landscape by cleaning up from man-made garbage.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 70-200mm / f4, Induro GIT 404XL tripod, RRS BH-55 ball head, Vello cable release, @105 mm, 1/250s, f/8, ISO100