I had been out photographing the whole day, and just as I called it quits and returned to the hotel. It started rumbling in the distance, I wasn’t quite sure on where the thunderstorm was, and I soon gave up trying to find a good spot to photograph it, and returned to my hotel.
But as it turned out, the best view of the thunderstorm was from the balcony on the hotel I was staying in, which of course was totally awesome.
First I made an HDR photo, for the foreground of the Town and the Church tower, the clouds and the Mountains. Then I made some long exposures in order to capture the lightning.
In post I started out by making the HDR, like I normally do. This one is made in HDREfex Pro 2 from Nik.
Then I masked in the lighting from two of the long exposures, containing the two best caught lighting strikes.
- Aperture: ƒ/8
- Camera: NIKON D800
- Focal length: 14mm
- ISO: 100
- Location: 47° 12.2792′ 0″ N 11° 24.9667′ 0″ E
- Shutter speed: 30s
Tyrol Lightning by Bo47 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
