In keeping with my last post showing a lightning photo, I thought I'd talk about another lightning photo today. I won't show this photo online since it's in the recent National Geographic magazine, but it's even more gorgeous than the I showed you recently.
The photograph also uses a technique we talked about earlier this year, the idea of taking multiple camera shots and combining them into one photo.
The photographer used a tripod and took multiple photos with exposures of 20 seconds during a night lightning storm. He then combined 70 frames into a single photograph. The result is a scene with multiple lighting strikes in the same area. They light up the sky, the clouds are white blending into purple then dark gray. The lightning, which looks like it's hitting the ocean, is a white-yellow with the area surrounding it a glowing orange. The ocean is slate gray and a stunning forground.
If you couldn't tell, I love the photo. But I'm also conflicted. That photo didn't actually happen. You can't go outside during a lightning storm and see that image. It's computer generated, a special effect. And I'm not sure how I feel about it. I love art photography, I love photoshop, and I love that a reader, not a National Geographic photographer, submitted this image. But still, it's not quite real, is it?
It doesn't really matter. If you get a chance to look through National Geographic (the April Titanic issue), see if you can find the photograph. It's a smaller photo, at the bottom of page 18.
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