Capturing Lightening & Applying Special Effects

I am no genius photographer or anything but I love capturing lightening as most of you would have seen by now… So here is a step by step and a special link to a photo-editing programme you can all download for free…

You’ll need a camera that shoots HD Movies, Quick Time Player (best for pausing on frames) and a programme called: Photoscape (which you can download free here: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php)

I use a NIKON S8000 – It’s has an HD Movie feature which I totally love to use for stills… Your pictures will come out best with HD quality…

1.       Firstly – you’ll record your movie

2.       After Importing the movie – play it through Quick Time Player… the nice thing about Quick time player is you can toggle frame by frame and stop on the shot you like best.

3.       Hit the Ctrl + Print Screen Button

4.       In photoscape open up – Editor and paste your image… you’ll see that your entire screen has been captured so you will have to “crop” the image.

5.       Once you have cropped the image you may apply filters that will bring out the look you are going for…

        Applying a FILM FILTER:

             Applying VIGNETTE:

Applying ANTIQUE PHOTO FILTER:

Hope you enjoy filming and editing away at your stills :)