This was taken last July after sunset. I shot a series of 1 second exposures to try and capture a good lightning bolt. This was the best of the series. I used NIK Viveza in PS to bring out the cloud shapes and color. Comments and suggestions for improvement welcome.
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Thread: Evening Lightning
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1st June 2016, 01:35 AM #1
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Evening Lightning
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1st June 2016, 01:48 AM #2
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Re: Evening Lightning
The large shapes, color and details are really nice, Paul. Don't change a thing.
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1st June 2016, 03:13 AM #3
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Re: Evening Lightning
I agree with Mike's comments. That's great shot, Paul.
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1st June 2016, 07:14 AM #4
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Re: Evening Lightning
Beautiful, Paul...did you use Graduated Filters in Color Efex? Good job!
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1st June 2016, 07:44 AM #5
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Re: Evening Lightning
Great capture, I can not think of any improvements.
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1st June 2016, 07:59 AM #6
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Re: Evening Lightning
Nicely composed on the diagonal, well processed and you got one. What's to change? Nice shot.
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1st June 2016, 11:33 AM #7
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Re: Evening Lightning
Paul, improve on what?
Cheers Ole
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1st June 2016, 12:05 PM #8
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Re: Evening Lightning
+1 to what the others have mentioned - nice work.
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1st June 2016, 12:49 PM #9
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Re: Evening Lightning
Thank you for your comments. No graduated filter was used. I lowered the color saturation and brightened the upper part of the thunderstorm with Viveza to remove a slight color cast. I may have overdone the pink cloud at the lower left a little bit. This cell had lots of lightning in it and was fun to watch and photograph.
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