Very intensely watching all the online weather reports, radar, web cams… I decided to chase three severe thunderstorm cells to Crater Lake three days in a row. In 13 years of doing landscape photography full time I don’t know if I have ever witnessed such a spectacular show of light or as much lightening! On this evening, I took 2150 images in about an hour and a half, using two cameras, running back and forth between them. The Ranger next to me said that in 12 years of working at Crater Lake, hiking daily and often hiking the rim on his days off, he had never seen anything like it. This is a single shot with the Sony A7R and the Canon 14mmL2. One of the hardest things about processing the image was to take the colors that were severely unrealistic to the eye, as well as unrealistic in the initial Raw default settings, and dummy them down, and settle on a point where they would be more believable but not lose the original craziness. I decided to attempt to strike a balance between the ridiculousness of the light we saw that night (which runs the risk of turning some people off) and a more neutral realistic version. We can never please everyone but with some critical help I ended settling on this version. As always I share my processing techniques on my various Photoshop Videos. Feel free to Facebook me or go to my website WildForLight.com for more information. I have some AWESOME encouraging photographer friends to thank considerably for critical feedback in fine tuning the image over the last few days. HUGE thanks and a great debt of gratitude go out to: Ted Gore, Alex Noriega (these guys are savant freaks when it comes to post production!) Peter Cosken, Andrew Mitchell, Erin Babnik (she is a guru too!) Ryan Engstrom, Brain Adelberg (Brian rocks!) Micheal Shaniblum, Rob Lafreniere, Scott Smorra, Majeed Badizadegan, Max Vuong, TJ (monster work ethic) Thorn, David Richer, Dylan Toh, Paul Rojas, Justin Poe, Terrence Lee, Paul Bowman, Nick Diggins and Enrico Fossati. Thank you for looking and great light to you!
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