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Theme - Light - Lightning Glow
This seems to be a late night shooting week for me, with the Discovery launch last week. We went to bed about Midnight and there was a fantastic light show going on to the south and east. Hope those of you more southern members faired well. I had to get back up to get the camera and just try. I've never shot lightning before and handheld the camera for the 1-20 second exposures based on the AV setting. A few were black, due to missing the timing, but a few turned out nicely. Most of the ones I was able to get were sheet lightning. Right after I turned off the camera and got back into bed, some spectacular bolt lightning appeared. But ... next time! :( ;)
I tried a number of effects with this one and kept coming back to my old standby of Poster Edge. Couldn't get any other effects to work, as they always went too dark and brightening the image took away from the effect.
This image was shot toward the other homes, across the lake, one of which was still lit up. Liked the effect of the lightning and the lit house. The glow of the city lights also added to the image.
Enjoy!