Taken from the fire escape outside my apartment on a stormy morning before leaving for work. Set the exposure to 15 seconds and took a series of photos. In this one I was lucky enough to get two lightning bolts in the same exposure.
Cropped and rotated in ACR, then in Photoshop I did two different exposures and masked out the brighter one just for the building, which was completely overexposed in the original. Then some levels and layers stuff, noise ninja and sharpening, resized and saved for web.
I'm not quite sure what to expect for this photo. I think it might be a little too dark, and to be honest, I'm a bit sick of looking at it after all the different edits I've done. Oh well, I can only wait and see! :-)
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First Impression: Two lightning bolts in one shot! I especially liked the lightning strike near the church, it looks like it is lighting all of the front. Or maybe it is.
Subject: It's not often that two lightning strikes are captured it a photo, at least not this well done. Best of 2009 and maybe a long time before you get a chance to capture this again.
Technical: At first I felt there was too much space at the very top, after looking at it though I think it's perfect. If you take any away from the top you would lose some of that blue colour.
Final thoughts: I don't really see anyway that you could improve this particular image. I hope to see more from you on DPC. I checked my favourite photographers by votes given, over 9 challenges I've given you an average of 6.67.
It's really amazing the way you got the reflection in the water of the left one, and the other near that "church" tower, it looks like the forces of nature defy religion :)
Excellent clarity, tack sharp.
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