Here’s my attempt at it: four pictures compiled in GIMP 2.8; three of lightening and one of the lighthouse. The picture of the lighthouse was actually taken in the middle of the day, so I darkened it significantly.
Eliana Franzenburg, here’s a quick description of how I did it, in GIMP, (because it’s free software, although Photoshop or Affinity would work too.)
The gist of it is that I took my four photos and opened them as layers (FILE menu, “Open as Layers”) and erased the parts of them that I didn’t want, using the “select” and “erase” tools in GIMP. I also used the “quick mask” function (a little button on the left side of the horizontal scrollbar) to tweak my selection with a brush tool. GIMP is free software and is available for Windows, Linux, and, I think, Mac OS, so there’s no harm in installing it and trying it for yourself.
The light-beam is entirely artificial; I made it in Inkscape and opened it as a layer also; it’s in a layer between the lighthouse (which is the top layer) and the lightening layers.
