Lightning

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Yesterday evening a thunderstorm passed my city with lots of rain, thunder and lightning. I thought it would be nice to try the Live Composite feature of my Olympus camera again. To capture some lightning strikes. Normally this can be challenging to do. But with the Live Composite feature it is fairly easy to do. It took me a few tries to get the settings right.

The composition of the image is not so great. But this is the best one I got. I corrected the exposure and crop a bit in Lightroom and used Topaz Clarity to give it a bit more pop.

Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Lens: M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8

Lightning, Weather, Thunder, Thunderstorm

Live composite experiment

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Amaretto
I own the E-M10 for a few months now. But never played with some of the extra and unique features of the camera. Today I decided to have a go with the live composite feature. My original idea was to go to the city center where are many fairground attractions this week.

But the weather was not so good. Lots of rain. I figured I could also use live composite for some kind of product shot and paint light onto the object with a small flashlight.

I had some fun doing it and this is the one I like the best. Will be experimenting more with this. Who needs studio lights or flashes when you have an E-M10 and a cheap flashlight. 🙂