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Lightning Strike ...
Lightning Strike ...
Rob O


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Challenge: Photo Tutorial (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Hudson, Colorado
Date: Jul 16, 2011
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 400
Shutter: 4sec
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 17, 2011

 Perfect timing for this speed challenge, as there were daily thunderstorms across the Front Range (Colorado / Denver area) for the past week-plus and I'd been lackadaisical in trying to capture the action. When the speed challenge email hit my inbox there happen to be a massive overnight storm moving through with the most active lightning display thus far; literally strike after strike after strike turning night into day.

I referenced the following tutorial in setting up to capture this image (along with about 25 other "keepers"): How To Photography Lightning, weatherscapes.com

Note that I'm on holiday/vacation and more than 5000 miles away from my PC, so had to employ a "mobile workflow". I wish I could have processed normally using PS CS5, as I think the image could be much stronger and advanced editing means I could really make it pop. Unfortunately, the best I could do was transfer the 5D MkII RAW image file to my iPad using Apple's Camera Connection Kit, perform minimal processing with Nik's snapseed app then save it off as hi-res jpeg. I then used another app to resize (per dpc dimension requirements) before submitting.

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Place: 16 out of 65
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AuthorThread
 09/27/2011 03:33:59 PM
nice
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/19/2011 05:48:46 PM
It will break my heart if the lightning is not real, otherwise this is my personal choice for the blue ribbon.

My score: 10
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 07/17/2011 08:50:00 PM
Please tell me which tutorial showed you how to get that lighting bolt to come down from the sky. ;-) Nice capture!
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