Electric Blue Hour Musings - a photo on Flickriver

This is a fun one to View Large on White.

We did a bit of storm chasing out in Pawnee National Grassland after last night's sunset and here is the result. The blue hour is certainly one of my favorite times to photograph lightning, I hope you enjoy it.

Image Notes: Nine stacked exposures at 30 seconds, f/4.5 at ISO 1600. Basically stacked with the same method as star trails, i.e. brightness blending. But I only masked in the stacked image where it highlighted the lightning/storm so the clouds/stars stayed put. Noise reduction via Topaz Denoise 4.1 (quickly becoming a favorite NR method).

Taken on: June 5, 2010

Tags:

Lightning

Strike

Sky

Nature

Weather

Storm

Stormy

Chasing

Landscape

Pawnee

Weld

Colorado

Pawnee National Grassland

Rain

Silhouette

16:10

Composite

Nikon

D300

Nikon 17-55

Blue

Indigo

Blue Hour

catchycolorsblue

SpecNature

2010

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Camera: Nikon D300, f/4.5, 30 sec, 17mm (=25mm), ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	30
Focal Length:	17mm (35mm equivalent: 25mm)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Portrait
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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