A lightning strike happened the moment I took a photo and made it look like daytime. I took the second photo 10 seconds later.

Oh wow. That is cool.

Wow. What time was it?

just the sheer timing required to do that. (and the luck as well)

I once saw an electrical substation basically explode during a legendary ice storm. Did it more than once. I noticed it first while laying in bed with my eyes closed. Got up like wtf and went to the window. Did it again. Turned the night into day but nearly twice as bright with a weird blue green hue. Felt like it almost burned my retinas. I was cringing, waiting for the accompanied shock wave from the nuclear blast. Power was out for nearly a week.

I don’t know if I understand it correctly or not. But I feel like that phone camera have to correcting exposure so fast to be able to get that first photo without highlight blownout.

That’s why the flashlight symbol is a lightning

This is wildly interesting to me, that’s so cool

I know it isn’t, but it really looks like natural daylight rather than a ‘spot’ light overhead during the night. If you posted the first one as an average rainy day, few people would know the difference.

This is awesome!

It is crazy how bright lightning is, there are so few shadows on the bright picture.

So lightning is just daytime in a stick?

Why is this interesting tho?

Has no one here been outside during lightning strikes?

You sure you don’t just have a really good flash on your phone?

Good idea for a dataset to train AI to see in the dark

Holy crapola!

If you showed this to someone with no context they’d be like “Okay? It’s a picture in the day and in the night”. I’d love to see their reaction upon receiving the context.