More Storms

There were some spectacular storms tonight, but I have a fever and am feeling blah so I couldn't get motivated to really go out and try and shoot the light show. The lightning teased me enough that I finally did go out for just a little while around 3 a.m.

The first image is the unretouched original. Following that are my attempts to enhance the main bolt and then, finally, I was just goofing off. The last photo is the only other lightning shot I got tonight. Neither of the shots are really blogworthy but, really, it's STILL lightning! Click Here To See Enlarged Images

Photo editing practice

Original and without any cropping or editing of any kind:

Post-Op:

Enlarged it won't hold up under scrutiny, but smaller I think it actually looks fairly okay. I will probably practice on this pic a lot. It took a lot of layers to do the fix and I need to learn to work within those layers. Right now, it's all hack and bash. I have no clue what I'm doing.

More tweaking.

Original

It was a lot harder to remove the light from this color photo. In fact, it might have been easier to wait for some more fog at night and try shooting again. It's not perfect and I don't know how it will look printed, but it's great practice for me. Here I have Photoshop 6.0 and I barely know how to use it. Such a waste!

I'll learn... however slowly.

Leaping Lenses, Batman!

Playing in Photoshop to try and tweak my favorite pic in this series of photos. I figured out how to use the cloning tool, finally. It helped fixed the camera glare in the lower right corner of the photo better than I had it "fixed" in my previous post. I don't think I can fix that light between the tree trunks... not with my limited skills. Thanks for your honest input, Jean! It's exactly what I needed to hear. Below is the original, unretouched photo:





Holy Exclusion Tool, Batman! I did it! Even enlarged it doesn't look bad! Woot!