This is not a composite image, it is a single Raw file with conservative corrective adjustments (see my video on Facebook of this in default settings if you want) and a lightning strike through a rainbow with no lightning trigger used.
Methodology:
While working on biz, out of my apartment in Bend Oregon, I studied the weather (and radar projections) intensely and became inconvenienced 4 days in a row by the decision to chase thunder cells (about 2 hours each way) to Crater Lake, getting some nice results on each unique day. This image was shot the day before my most popular shots I have ever taken: "Light Show" and "Spellbound" (the double rainbows over Crater Lake at sunset).
On a tripod I simply kept my camera in continuous shooting mode (manual cable release) to get the lightning, there were so many strikes going on. With my other camera, I worked on zoomed abstracts...
In post, the hardest thing was making the very bizarre and very intense colors witnessed more neutral so as to be more believable. Sometimes I believe it wise to pull back a bit when we are confronted with nuclear alien-like color, intensity, and light.
All the best, thank you for looking and Great Light to you!
Awesome capture of some magical light and circumstances, Mark. And thanks for your detailed explanations (your norm) that help others appreciate the creative/practical processes you follow to capture the light.
Wait, you captured rainbow plus lighting from Crater Lake AGAIN?! And while being on top of or at least next to two of the prominent points sticking up from the rim's edge? Did you bring your own Faraday cage to protect yourself? The red channel is a bit clipped out in the clouds for my taste but anyway some people have all the luck (though not without risk...).
Edit: This is at least the 3rd time you've captured lightning + rainbow there, which you mentioned, hah. May you continue to have good and safe luck.
kurt765 wrote:
Wait, you captured rainbow plus lighting from Crater Lake AGAIN?! And while being on top of or at least next to two of the prominent points sticking up from the rim's edge? Did you bring your own Faraday cage to protect yourself? The red channel is a bit clipped out in the clouds for my taste but anyway some people have all the luck (though not without risk...).
Edit: This is at least the 3rd time you've captured lightning + rainbow there, which you mentioned, hah. May you continue to have good and safe luck.
Here is a corrected version without Red clipping. My monitor was off because of room brightness when I edited it. Thank you for the feedback!
Sashi wrote:
Awesome capture of some magical light and circumstances, Mark. And thanks for your detailed explanations (your norm) that help others appreciate the creative/practical processes you follow to capture the light.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
Sorry, I used to always do that, and recently I have not as much. I'll try to get on myself about that and describe a little more of how the shot technically was acquired.
