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Lightning Strike C&C please

  • 30-08-2011 3:07pm
    #1
    nicknackgtb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    REcently got back from holidays in Lagos Portugal and one of the nights there was a lightning show!! so out came the camera and tried to take some pics of it.

    Out of the 10 or so, this was the best one.

    I'm really not sure how to edit these kind of scenes but gave it a small go. Not overly happy with it so was maybe looking for some tips on how I could bring it out a bit?

    Feel free to post up any edits you may want to do with the original pic as examples!

    Here's the original:
    IMG_1665.jpg

    And heres what i attempted to do then!

    Lightening.jpg

    It was shot in Jpeg unfort as thats the setting it was on so tried my best!!

    Thanks,

    Paddy


Comments

  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    I'd leave the original alone. It's a brilliant photo.


  • #3
    Balfey1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Balfey1972


    Paulw wrote: »
    I'd leave the original alone. It's a brilliant photo.

    Agree with Paul on this.
    Original for me too. Great photo


  • #4
    Gallant_JJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭Gallant_JJ


    Original is lovely, leave her as is.


  • #5
    rain on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    I like what you've done with the colours below the horizon in the second one - not a fan of very yellow street lights. But I'd leave above the horizon as it is.


  • #6
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    I'd desaturate the yellows in the bottom half of the image but leave the rest alone, the edited one you posted just looks fake


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  • #7
    wonderwoman2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭wonderwoman2


    Original you say!

    It would be nice to see 1 or 2 others out of the 10 you took just out of interest, I would have thought that such a massive amount of light would light up more of the buildings, just saying :confused:


  • #8
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    wonderwoman2 wrote: »
    Original you say!

    It would be nice to see 1 or 2 others out of the 10 you took just out of interest, I would have thought that such a massive amount of light would light up more of the buildings, just saying :confused:

    I have to say, the photo is seriously confusing me too. Why is there a darker stroke over the central forks to distinguish it from the central glow? Surely they'd be blown out too?

    I won't go so far as to say the photo is fake, but I have to say that it certainly looks fake...


  • #9
    nicknackgtb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭nicknackgtb


    Thanks for all the replies, the bottom one was me trying to take out some of the red in the picture an some of the yellows, but as said by others, would have liked to keep the lightning the purple colour.

    I wasn't really sure what I was at tbh.

    The others are blurry or overexposed or not enough lightning on screen, therefor not seeing anything really in the photo!

    I also tried sharpening up using a high pass filter with hard light selected, I think I'm just used to doing that with my car photography an it just dosnt work with this!!


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