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Challenge: Missing Link (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: DK
Date: Jul 15, 2007
Aperture: F/10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 5 Sec
Galleries: Sky, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2007

Very lucky about this This was about the craziest thunderstorm of the year!

Cloned out flare from lamp, Burned a lil to highlight the lightning, Saturated, Contrast, Levels, Curves, Sized, Sharpened, Save for Web.

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 119
Avg (all users): 5.4567
Avg (commenters): 5.6000
Avg (participants): 5.1364
Avg (non-participants): 5.6265
Views since voting: 758
Views during voting: 240
Votes: 127
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)


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07/28/2007 12:47:22 AM
***From the Critique Club***

First Impression - the most important one:
WOW! Very cool lightening! but how does it apply to this challenge?
Composition:
I like the wood in the corner; it balances the picture, and gives your eye a choice, the lightening or the wood. I do find however that the image is a bit grainy (probably a result of High ISO as it’s a night shot hard to avoid, especially with all that haze and/or fog!) I think I would have liked to see a much longer shutter to try and lighten up the background a bit, to try and bring some colour into it.
Subject:
Fascinating on sooo many levels. There is just something about lightening that makes us as people want to stare... Thus making it a great subject for pictures. this one seems to do a cool dance about the sky also! lol
Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
I guess this is where the grainy thoughts and the trying to lighten the background should have been written. However all that aside the lightening showed up great!
Artistic:
I think the redeeming factor artistically, is the wood in the corner, otherwise it falls a little short in the artistic side. (Personally speaking of course) but All the same its a picture I would have liked to have taken!
To grow its vote?:
I think the thing that hurt your votes the most is people struggling to see how this fits into the challenge. I like the picture but in good conscious I couldn't vote it very high in this challenge, as I don't feel it really applies!
Summary:
Great picture, very cool, you must have been very excited after taking it. However I think your title is a bit of a mad grab to get this picture to fit inside the competition. There are also some lighting adjustments to try and keep in mind next big storm. As hard as it can be try not to max out the ISO, and use a very long shutter, then post process the sky a bit darker. Anyways Glad I got to see this one!

Hey this image is above your average good, job! I also really like “world of purity and Black cats”

Happy shooting, CBoydrun.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/22/2007 09:34:07 PM
Capture/Composition: 8
Quality: 6
Missing Link: 2
07/21/2007 02:02:27 PM
Great lightning capture. To bad there's nothing else in the shot to add to it. For example, I've been trying for years to get a shot of the Michigan Capital Building with lightning around it. Just haven't had the luck yet...
TC
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07/18/2007 11:29:46 PM
What a bolt. Nice timing.
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07/18/2007 07:05:19 PM
wow....super capture!!
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07/17/2007 12:05:09 PM
I gotta take some lighting pics someday. This is cool.
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07/17/2007 12:11:48 AM
Look up HAARP, and you might get an explaination
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07/16/2007 08:30:25 AM
nice lightning capture!
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