Close Lightning

Photo is at Tonightssky.org link in the signature

24mm, 15sec, f/9 ISO 200 (two frames stacked, and 'lightened" in ps)

http://tonightssky.org​/images/090110b.jpg

Great looking photos! Love the lightning shots. How do you stack the images of lightning without the clouds becoming overlapped/blurred?

blakeG! wrote in post #10882208
Great looking photos! Love the lightning shots. How do you stack the images of lightning without the clouds becoming overlapped/blurred?

I'm not sure how to avoid that, but you can't have a lot of time pass between the stacked frames. With all the images on that page, each stacked frame occurred within a minute of one another, and thus the clouds didn't move enough to make a big difference. Really, It just needs to actually BE realistic in order to look realistic when stacking lightning. Strikes more than a minute apart just won't work. I've got an example of 20 or so strikes over about 30 minutes that just doesn't work because the clouds moved too much...
http://tonightssky.org​/images/072410a.jpg

Stacking lightning is very tricky unless its VERY frequent.

blakeG! wrote in post #10882208
Great looking photos! Love the lightning shots. How do you stack the images of lightning without the clouds becoming overlapped/blurred?

The other option is to just use a layer mask. Add the one image as a layer in the other and mask away until you get the desired effect.

Nice shot, btw.