Critiques - Tornado photo restoration

[darlingm]

Looking for critiques.

* Shadows/Highlights
* Levels
* Vibrance
* Hue/Saturation
* Exposure
* Removed Electrical Poles

The massive white area is blown (color #FFFFFF), so can't extract real detail. Considered trying to merge in other clouds to fill, but not sure if that needs to /should be done.


Before




After

 

[darlingm]

Note: This photograph was taken by Justin Hobson, and is used with permission under the Creative Commons Attribution license, and is not intended to suggest that he endorses or uses my services.

 

[ibclare]

Interesting what you've done to the exposure, brightening the scene under a storm sky. But you have made the storm clouds azure, almost friendly looking. I don't think this improves the picture unless your purpose is to create a friendly funnel, lol. But that said, you did pull the color and detail out of the grass very nicely and found some detail in the white ... or put some in. In fact, the grass does convey that yellowish cast that tornadoes are generally accompanied by. My main problem is with the out of character, pretty blue-green clouds.

 

[thepaulreid]

I liked the telegraph pole in shot. For me it helps add scale to the tornado! Nice work though!