Lightning Strikes Back
We were in Arizona for the weekend during monsoon season when I got this shot. For hours I stood in the rain under an umbrella as it poured trying to get a few good ones of the lightning storm. My wife thought I was crazy sitting out there but I didn’t care! The storm was crazy and I wanted to capture something. One of the shots I found most interesting was this one with the lightning going through the bottom and through the top of the clouds. Kinda cool.
Shot with Canon 5d, 24mm, 320 ISO, f5.6 at 30 secs on a tripod.
Post processing – Came up with a bit of noise in the cloud area which I wasn’t happy about. Fixed easily in Photoshop by converting image to LAB mode and then slightly blurring the A and B channels around the noisy area. Then I converted back into RGB space and saved.
Below is another shot I thought turned out ok. Did this one with same lens using 100 ISO which eliminated the noise, f7.1 which gave a bit more focus and at same exposure time of 30 secs.
Thought this may be a good one for stock so I posted on Shutterstock, Crestock and iStockPhoto.
That’s cold…its only the first post and you are outdoing me…nice shot!