Witness the power of nature at Framed By Nature .NETWhen processing my storm images, I try to keep them realistic in terms of exposure/balance. But sometimes, it's just freaking fun to go a little heavier on the HDR processing of a menacing sky lol.

This is one of those cases where I started out with a ridiculous stress-relief HDR processing, but ended up liking so much that I had to post it (after bringing it back a tad closer to reality, of course).

HDR is really great for bringing out areas like the finer inflow details on the lower right, which otherwise would have likely blown out due to the high contrast.
I may have to make an HDR tutorial sometime in the future, if anyone would be interested
To see the full set of images from this day, click here!Please tell me what you think!

I love this one, it's like heaven's opened up or a spaceship is landing or the sky is falling down a plughole...
Seriously, though, it looks so unreal and yet it happened. So epic - you were really lucky to see it up close
Great capture, keep it up