Grand Canyon Lightning Storm

Grand Canyon Lightning

Photo of the Grand Canyon During a Lightning storm by Tony Eckersley

This is a rework of a popular photo of mine (according to Flickr stats).

The truth is, I never really liked it that much. I was going through a stage of experimenting with HDR and uploaded it one day and ultimately it received quite a bit of attention – picture of the day blogs, prints and it can be licensed through Getty.

So I decided to revisit the RAW file from that day and rework it. There was a ton of luck involved with this photo. Right place at the right time right? I just happened to be taking a photograph of the incoming storm (had yet to be a spike of lightning, just clouds lighting up) when as soon as I pressed my shutter I thought I noticed the sky light up. Of course with my mirror up on my camera I didn’t see it in person. So I pressed review and there it was! I had never before photographed lightning before, so catching a spike by luck was, well, very lucky!

The RAW file was pretty dark (because of the dark storm) so I added some exposure – but that’s about it…


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