{"id":1096,"date":"2012-08-10T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T04:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:29:03","slug":"panorama-of-the-day-august-7-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2012\/08\/10\/panorama-of-the-day-august-7-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Panorama of the day, August 7, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first, this just might look like another one of my many lightning shots.<\/p>\n

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What you don’t know however, is that this is 100% luck. \u00a0It’s a daylight shot, and the only reason the lightning is in the image is that it flashed 3 times and after I pressed the shutter the first time, I was just lucky enough for it to have flashed the second time and I found it on my image.<\/p>\n

What you also don’t know is that I really had no intention of trying to get a lightning shot out of this, I went up to the balcony to take a panorama of the late evening sky and all of the storms that were advancing across the horizon. \u00a0Shooting from left to right, I set up on this frame first, and poof, there it was. \u00a0It took a bit of work with the final images to keep the lightning from being “erased” from the panorama, but I finally figured out how to do it.<\/p>\n

Here is the small version, 6 images stitched together.<\/p>\n

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You can see the larger one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first, this just might look like another one of my many lightning shots. What you don’t know however, is that this is 100% luck. \u00a0It’s a daylight shot, and the only reason the lightning is in the image is that it flashed 3 times and after I pressed the shutter the first time, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightning","category-new-mexico-sky","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}