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Nasty Weather in the Midwest (Toad's nightmare)
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I had a bad dream about 2 tornados on the Prairies.

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#2

That's scarey Mr T. Great, but worrying even to a Brit.

I keep dreaming of twin moons............

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#3

Excellent! ...
Those clouds and tornados look so dramatic... The color of the field looks gorgeous... so warm... fantastic contrast with the sky...

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#4

:| I'm Speechless........ great effort there, like Irma says such a dramatic contrast from earthy tones of land to threatening skies......

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#5

Toad, please put me at ease here: composite, yes? If so, when done?...and if not, then...ooer.
I'm quite arrested by your pic: a year or 2 ago I had a dream in which 7 tornados just like these stormed slowly towards me across the Severn estuary, whereupon I got out the car. They stopped right in front of me, flashing and roaring away, while I just peacefully stood there among them in comfortable awe...beautiful.

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Toad Wrote:I had a bad dream about 2 tornados on the Prairies.

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Yay! That was some nightmare! "Twister" is one of my all time favourite films. I also have a Warren Faidley calender on the wall. If I had my time over again I'd want to go on at least one hair-raising chase. Big Grin

Superb picture, though I trust it's not a something you shot when you were out storm chasing for real?


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#7

Holly crap, Toad, I've never seen anythink like that before. That's some scary stuff and an excellent capture also! Thank you for sharing!

Ps: Are you at the midwest now?


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#8

Excellent image Toad. I'm going to guess all is real but the twisters themselves. yay? Nay?

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#9

Thanks people. Analysts say that dreaming of vilolent storms means you feel your life is out of control. What do they know?

I have been trying to come up with some really scary imagery for the cover of a new heavy metal CD. When I had the dream about the twisters, I started to work on this one. The original scene is very benign...

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The rest of it including the twisters is pure PhotoShoppery - and no real twisters were filmed or injured during the making of this photo.

I think I may be on to something here, and the CD cover will probably be a variation on this theme (if the band likes it).

My favorite detail is the debris flying around at the base of the larger tornado - even though it is barely visible, I think it adds "reality" to the shot.
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#10

Great job Toadster. Hope the band likes it.

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#11

Great work!
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#12

And my thought was that you worked with two images... one the sky and the other the field... and then you worked to with ps to have the tornados... Once I painted clouds... it was one of the most difficult parts of my painting... The clouds and tornados are fantastic...

Good luck with this picture Smile

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#13

One word - COOOOOOL!!!
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Stay away from those video games pilgrim.

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#15

I reckon two tornadoes is overdoing it a bit, but the clouds are fantastic.
It really alters the scene.

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NT73 Wrote:I reckon two tornadoes is overdoing it a bit, but the clouds are fantastic.
It really alters the scene.
Thanks - actually multiple simultaneous tornados spinning off from a storm system is rather common. But it would be pretty lucky to capture them both in the same frame complete with a scenic foreground, I admit...
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#17

That's awesome work Mr T! I love the twisters! It's amazing that you painted? them in... Big Grin

You should put a couple of cows flying through the air while you're at it... Big Grin
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#18

Who says it has to look realistic? I love the two tornados, and I think it would look great on a CD cover.
I think the mood of the first shoot (the lighting mostly) really lends itself to your photoshopping. Great work!!

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#19

Thanks Schellamo - a really nice comment - particulaly as my personal philosophy has always been "Who says it has to look realistic?".

I really think it has to look sort-of-realistic - i.e. the lighting has to be sort of right and it can't look cut-and-paste - but the whole idea of Photoshoppery is to change what you see - maybe subtley - maybe hugely.

Thanks again.
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#20

Stunning image Toad. Great artwork on the tornado's. I love the carnage at the base of the tornado. Did you use any source images for the clouds, looks way to good to be all hand drawn.

It will make a striking CD cover. Can I ask the name of the band?

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#21

Thanks S. I did use a "base" image for the clouds, but they are virtually unrecognizable - the clouds were benign white fluffy things - and far less of them - for the Tornado image they are horribly mutated. The base image did help me get the fluffiness and swirls correctly, though - but it is true that they are not painted per se.

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#22

thats awesome Toad.

love the PS work would have sucked me in!!! Cool
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