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2015-05-09 Weather: Thunderstorm at Sunset

If you also love to take pictures of thunderstorms witth lightnings and dramatic clouds, then you know that the best storms are those shot in front of or next to the setting sun. Today i was lucky to capture some images of a thunderstorm at sunset using Live Composite to collect lightnings without overexposing the image.

All images were shot from my balcony, the storm was moving in from the west and the sun was setting a to the left of it.

Thunderstorm at Sunsetshot from my balcony using live composite
Doublestrike at SunsetThunderstorm shot from my balcony
Thunderstorm at Sunset IIshot from my balcony using live composite. Added a crawler from another storm to add some drama, the other two lightnings are real
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