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I wanted to share my favorite frame from my Summer 2013 monsoon photography shoot in southeast Arizona. I've posted to the group twice some frames from this trip.. but I finally got around to processing my favorite one.. which I share here. It's a pano 1:3 crop from one frame. The light at sunset was something like I've never seen and the lightning was phenomenal over the Dos Cabezas Mountains (near Willcox, AZ)

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Nov 08, 2013 at 12:43 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Monsoon Charge

Hey Mike,

That is really super cool! What a sweet strike you have there. I can imagine just how surreal the light was. I like the pano crop.

Jim

Nov 08, 2013 at 01:23 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Monsoon Charge

Mike,

Great composition. Love that the lightning strike is the divider between the light vs dark area. It has great mood and fantastic sight to see.

Jason

Nov 08, 2013 at 01:34 AM

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JimFox wrote:
Hey Mike,

That is really super cool! What a sweet strike you have there. I can imagine just how surreal the light was. I like the pano crop.

Jim

Thanks Jim! I really appreciate the comments.. -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 09:36 AM

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roguecoolman wrote:
Mike,

Great composition. Love that the lightning strike is the divider between the light vs dark area. It has great mood and fantastic sight to see.

Jason

Hi Jason, thanks a lot. I appreciate it! -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 09:36 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Monsoon Charge

It looks like very much you nailed the scene with a great composition and color. Yes.. simply amazing!

Nov 08, 2013 at 09:52 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Monsoon Charge

amazing image. the foreground, changing clouds, leading lines to the lightening make it quite epic.

Nov 08, 2013 at 11:07 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Monsoon Charge

Yeah this is just epic! Sometime things just line up perfectly!

Nov 08, 2013 at 11:31 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Monsoon Charge

Love it! Yin yang thing going on here!

Nov 08, 2013 at 12:31 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Monsoon Charge

Great lighting strike! Did you use a lightning trigger of some sort?

Nov 08, 2013 at 12:44 PM

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Kee Woo Rhee wrote:
It looks like very much you nailed the scene with a great composition and color. Yes.. simply amazing!

Kee Woo, thank you very much for the kind words.. greatly appreciated! -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 02:15 PM

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dgdg wrote:
amazing image. the foreground, changing clouds, leading lines to the lightening make it quite epic.

dg, thanks a bunch! Glad you enjoyed the image.. -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 02:16 PM

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Justin Grimm wrote:
Yeah this is just epic! Sometime things just line up perfectly!

Another "epic", lol. Thanks! Yeah this was truly a magical moment. The truly artistic moments in storm photography don't show up that often... hence the 2.5 week trip to hopefully capture that one frame! -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 02:18 PM

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Scott Kroeker wrote:
Love it! Yin yang thing going on here!

Thanks Scott!

Nov 08, 2013 at 02:19 PM

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JohanEickmeyer wrote:
Great lighting strike! Did you use a lightning trigger of some sort?

Yes, that's part of my arsenal. In fact I have two bodies with them. It's really a must for golden hour lightning photography. Thanks for the compliment! -Mike

Nov 08, 2013 at 02:20 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Monsoon Charge

That's really spectacular. I used to shoot lightning the old-fashioned way - Luck, time exposures and a bit more luck.

Which trigger device do you use? Have you tried more than one?

Thanks for sharing,

Eric

Nov 08, 2013 at 05:56 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Monsoon Charge

Striking (sorry) image :-)

Nov 08, 2013 at 06:07 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Monsoon Charge

Insanely cool!

Nov 08, 2013 at 06:20 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Monsoon Charge

Man this is a great photo. Love the dark versus light play with the lightening bolt separating the two. Good versus evil theme.

Nov 08, 2013 at 07:39 PM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Monsoon Charge

astro-ep wrote:
That's really spectacular. I used to shoot lightning the old-fashioned way - Luck, time exposures and a bit more luck.

Which trigger device do you use? Have you tried more than one?

Thanks for sharing,

Eric

Hi Eric, thanks for the compliments. I use a device simply called "Lightning Trigger", trademarked brand (www.lightningtrigger.com). I also used a similar device that's sold on B&H Photo by AEO Photo. They both work by the same principal, detecting rapid luminosity changes in the infrared that lightning causes. It is not fool proof, as there is shutter lag that obviously plays into the fact that not every flash is captured (lightning is pretty fast!).

Nov 08, 2013 at 09:24 PM

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