Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: David Eckels on July 24, 2020, 02:13:43 pm
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Taken last night. Lucky snap. Lucky w/D850 (incredible dynamic range). Created an HDR merge in LR using 3 virtual copies of the original frame (-3, 0, +0.5 EV). Not quite final, but close.
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A truly fine shot, David. And as HCB said: "It's always luck. You just have to be receptive."
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Agree with Russ as to luck and good shooting.
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Yes!!!
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Cool! I have yet to capture a lightning in a shot.
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Cool! I have yet to capture a lightning in a shot.
I was in the same boat, Armand, and sadly passed on many candidate images. I have attached the "unmolested" DNG, which was disappointing because it appeared at first glance that my trigger finger had been a tad too late. The structure of the lightning bolt did not appear until I had reduced exposure in LR to -3. The rest of the image is, as they say, history. If you have any raw files that look like this, perhaps they are recoverable. Of course, this only applies to a D850, but I think you are a Nikon shooter no? I suppose it could work with any camera. Hope this is an encouragement. By the way, I am enjoying my new computer build inspired by your experience recorded here a few weeks ago.
PS Thanks for all the nice comments, guys!
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I’m glad that I helped with the computer.
As to the lightnings, it’s more a lack of opportunity as I’m too lazy to actively go and shoot storms. I mean I barely got myself to shoot the July 4th fireworks, although in retrospect that’s a very good practice for storms with lightning. If I was like somebody who goes out during monsoon season in SW (as in our member maddog) I would probably invest in a lightning trigger.
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Good strike!