I hope everyone is having a great summer!
Here is another from that incredible thunderstorm! I ❤️ FL! Had I known how incredible "lightning alley" and the state was, I would have moved here long ago!
Camera and settings:
Sony A7R2
Canon 11-24@11mm
100 ISO
f/16
1/6
Processing: the ultimate quality, completely lossless, Adobe Raw layer workflow (Pure Raw in Photoshop!).
The editor is finally working on that... 😊. The bottom line, for those who may be interested, is that we can now work in Photoshop in a pure 100% lossless Layer workflow, which many of us fine art quality fanatics have been waiting for since about 2003/2004 once Camera Raw was released and we began to understand the lossless nature of pure Raw adjustments!
Realistically - looks like a masterful blend of multiple exposures taken at different focal lengths and shutter speeds.
The foreground looks like taken with a UWA, the mid and background are taken with a Normal FL lens.
The shutter speed for foreground and everything else don't seems to match. FG is at least a second long ; BG is 1/8 or faster.
The thunderbolt of that thickness on a UWA would have been very close and yet it looks very distant.
That is one potent bolt of lightning Mark! Oh man love the depth of this image, such a great POV and love the colors, water flow, wave break and drama in the sky, superb
Damn this one has some DEPTH. Im appreciating the selected shutter speeds working in harmony. Smooth and creamy up front and sudden and dramatic in the back..That little blast of wave mid frame is spectacular. Im also loving the extreme foreground water/shadow separation.. Makes my eyes start low, hit that splashy wave, into a freaking lighting strike...Boom. Love your work Mark.
Mark, this is one exceptional composition! Your photography is always "top shelf" and I don't visit the Landscape forum enough.
But when I do you are always up there!
Again just super photography is all technical and visual foundations!
Dan
Processing: the ultimate quality, completely lossless, Adobe Raw layer workflow (Pure Raw in Photoshop!).
The editor is finally working on that... 😊. The bottom line, for those who may be interested, is that we can now work in Photoshop in a pure 100% lossless Layer workflow, which many of us fine art quality fanatics have been waiting for since about 2003/2004 once Camera Raw was released and we began to understand the lossless nature of pure Raw adjustments!
I am VERY interested!
Might you show the workflow to do this in ACR/Bridge/PsCC?
Thanks!
Dan
