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Challenge: Free Study 2010-10 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Roodepoort South Africa
Date: Oct 9, 2010
Aperture: f/7
ISO: 100
Shutter: 25 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2010

 Heard the first storms of the season rolling in from the South-West... grabbed the camera, tripod, remote shutter and a towel then run outside and climbed onto my roof.

There was some serious lightning activity that night and I got 21 shots of lightning in total that night. When I saw the screen for this shot and I had 3 bolts of lightning in it I knew I was lucky... and then got down off of my roof quickly :-)

Shot in RAW, adjusted exposure, curves and colours, import into CS3, high pass filter, adjust colours with curves, clone out some minor trees on the horizon, dodge and burn, add vignette, rotate to level horizon, crop, resize, sharpen, add border.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 316
Avg (all users): 6.7484
Avg (commenters): 8.6667
Avg (participants): 6.7117
Avg (non-participants): 6.8409
Views since voting: 2439
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 155
Comments: 10
Favorites: 2 (view)

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Nikon D800
Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX APO IF HSM for Nikon
 09/07/2011 07:56:39 AM
Just been perusing the last dozen or so Free Studies and saw this.
Super shot and well deserved finish, Top 10 in a FS! Lucky you didn't get fried!
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Nikon D500
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 11/08/2010 09:02:43 AM
Rian must be proud of you! I thought he was the master of lightning. Only saw this now and is really great great photography. Congrats.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
 11/08/2010 03:01:49 AM
Congrats Steve. Great finish and the bar has been moved up..You need to score a 7 next time. :)
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 11/08/2010 12:28:49 AM
Your a crazy man, but WOW did it ever pay off, this is totaly stunnng!!! Congratulations!
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
 11/08/2010 12:07:14 AM
Way to go Stephen on your new personal best!!! Great image! I gave it an 8 in voting
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Sony Alpha a7R II
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
 11/07/2010 08:00:30 PM
Great shot!
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 11/07/2010 11:41:23 AM
what a moment in time...beautiful
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 11/03/2010 08:48:50 AM
Wow - that's fantastic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/02/2010 12:49:19 PM
Phenomenal capture. One heck of a storm.
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Canon EOS R6
Canon RF 14-35mm f/4.0 L IS USM
 11/01/2010 02:01:46 PM
Spectacular.
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