Lightning critique

bigpuddin43 · May 14, 2014

Please let me know what y'all think. This is my first try at editing lightning shots. I didn't spend a lot of time on them but think they turned out ok. Took 175 pics to get these few but really like a couple of them.

yahgiggle · May 14, 2014

Cool, did you know some lightning goes up from the ground to the sky.

mmaria · May 14, 2014

did you bump the saturation?

bigpuddin43 · May 14, 2014

Just a little did I go to far again? I seam to be bad at over saturating.

ronlane · May 14, 2014

Nice set. I like #1,2,& 3 the best

bronzeo · May 14, 2014

I think the last one has by far the best composition, the colors more realistic. I like the last two.

Designer · May 14, 2014

Well, whether you're saturating or not, I think the set would look better if the level of color was the same in all of them.

Msteelio91 · May 14, 2014

I would crop the first one a little tighter on the tree and lighting, so take some off the right and bottom but leave the left and top. Nice shots though!

ronlane · May 14, 2014

Msteelio91 said:
I would crop the first one a little tighter on the tree and lighting, so take some off the right and bottom but leave the left and top. Nice shots though!

But the tree is blocking part of the lightning. If the trees were the subject, I would agree with you, but if it's the lightning, then I would argue that the first three are better.

Depends on what you personally want the subject to be.

Probably the best alternative would have been to move to the camera right and keep the two trees in the frame and where you could see the lightning fully to the ground.

bigpuddin43 · May 14, 2014

Thanks for the help. Pretty new to this and am having a hard time keeping my colors consistent especially with this set as it was right at sunset so light was dropping quickly from shot to shot. Do y'all typically edit one picture how you like it then just copy those edits to the other shots in that set or go thru and edit each individual picture. I know each one would probably need some retouching but just trying to figure out the best way to be more consistent.