Passing Storm, a photo from Connecticut, Northeast

Photographer's Note

Coming home from dinner on Sunday night, we could see the sky going crazy with lightning. I stepped on the gas to make it home in time to catch a large thunderstorm cell moving eastward over Long Island, NY.

Processing:
RAW - changed WB to tungsten, added slightly more blue, increased exposure by .5
JPG - added contrast with curves, dodged the foreground, noiseware, sharpen, resize, sharpen, save for web

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yuo (1184) 2008-08-12 7:32

Hi Jeffrey,
amazing lights and clouds!!
TFS, Yuo

mpb001 (4602) 2008-08-12 18:07

Hi Jeffrey,
I think that you've done a really great job here, both in capturing the wonderful light and post processing. I do think thought that a stronger foreground element here would have really made this and even greater shot.
Mike

rgarrigus (0) 2009-03-06 12:38

Hi Jeff,

I absolutely love the color in this one and, in my opinion, a stronger foreground might have conflicted with that awesome cloud bank in the distance. I think this has just enough foreground context and detail.

Cheers!

Bob G.