[olePigeon]

I did a similar picture with a flashlight. It's pretty easy. The camera didn't pick my movements up at all. It just looked like i was finishing up the S in my last name.

I didn't have a scanner at the time so I had to write it backwards. Took about 10 pictures before I got it right. They all looked cool, though.

I also attached my panoramic lens on the camera and took a 4 second exposure of San Jose from the hills. Looked really cool.

[villalobos]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
You really don't know WTF you're talking about, do you?
Anybody can brush that purplish blue and reduce opacity.
Observe.

Here's you're 5 minute quick job using a large soft brush with 3B6BF1. Change opacity and maybe a blend mode, and you've got a fairly close remake. Also not I desaturated the grass with the sponge, in case you ask.
Anything can be done in Photoshop. That's fairly basic.

Except yours looks fake....

[CreepingDeth]

So does the one with fake lightning. That is not real. That's BS.
Somehow, I don't buy that the lightning was close to that blbig tree on the far left that it'd show like that right through it.

Unedited Xenofex lightning.
Either it's the most realistic filter ever or this picture is bs.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
I'm not sure. It still looks a little doctored.
I am 100% sure that the background lightning is absolutly fake. It is Xenofex, a PS plugin with lighting. KPT collection has a similar filter. Looks like they blurred part of it and added a little grain. Otherwise, it looks like total bs. Not sure about the letters, though.

Meh, I've taken lightning pics like that (without the light pen writing) with my Minolta XTsi and my father's Minolta X-9 SLR's before. It's definitely possible to get a lightning shot like that.

The hardest thing about the shot is probably writing your name with a led in under 15 secs. The rest just sounds like dumb luck.

Awesome photo though - real or photoshopped.

[MacMan4000]

I thought that looked really cool so I went outside and did it myself! Check it out!

(its uploading as I type this, so it wont be all loaded, if it loads at all. All together I am uploading 24.5 mb so give it a few minutes before you complain about the site being down)

Edit: ok, give it about an hour... its only uploading at 30 kb/s . I guess the server is slower than i thought... My connection is "Awesome" so it isn't me.


RE-EDIT: its all up now.

[Lancer409]

cool

[cszar2001]

Originally posted by MacMan4000:
I thought that looked really cool so I went outside and did it myself! Check it out!

(its uploading as I type this, so it wont be all loaded, if it loads at all. All together I am uploading 24.5 mb so give it a few minutes before you complain about the site being down)

Edit: ok, give it about an hour... its only uploading at 30 kb/s . I guess the server is slower than i thought... My connection is "Awesome" so it isn't me.


RE-EDIT: its all up now.

I�m a believer now.

[entrox]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
Either it's the most realistic filter ever or this picture is bs.

I'd say your analysis is bs.

More real.. err... 'fake' lightning pictures:

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

Remarkably, they really look like the lightning on the original pic! I guess they have been photoshopped, too.

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:

Somehow, I don't buy that the lightning was close to that blbig tree on the far left that it'd show like that right through it.

Look at the picture again. See where the lightning hits? Way in the distance. It can't possibly show through the tree.