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Lightning storm, big jpegs
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Great pics. Thanks for posting them.
I live in the lighting capital of America, Brevard county Florida (I know the Tampa Bay and Phoenix folks are gonna chime in to differ) So when it's lighting around here, my butt is in doors. SAFE. So next time it cranks up around here I'll try and grab some shots.
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Dude those are sweet! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Awesome (although I had to open the images manually). I really wasn't expecting a thunderstorm at this point in the season.
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wow, those are awesome.
how did you get them? sit patiently waiting and ready to click? i've always been intruiged into how people take lightning photos.
mine are not extreme weather, but they are of the moon and shapes i drew with it, that i took on saturday.
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Originally Posted by Gator Lager
Great pics. Thanks for posting them.
I live in the lighting capital of America, Brevard county Florida (I know the Tampa Bay and Phoenix folks are gonna chime in to differ) So when it's lighting around here, my butt is in doors. SAFE. So next time it cranks up around here I'll try and grab some shots.
i'm in tampa bay, and honestly, couldn't care who is the lightning capital. but if yours are bigger than some of the ones here, that's just scary.
some here have struck right next to a friend's car and set the car alarm off.
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What's that big plant on the left of the pictures? I don't think we have anything like that here in IL...
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Originally Posted by mdc
wow, those are awesome.
how did you get them? sit patiently waiting and ready to click? i've always been intruiged into how people take lightning photos.
I was wondering about precisely the same thing.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Awesome (although I had to open the images manually).
Sorry about that, it appears that my server is fubar too.
Originally Posted by mdc
how did you get them? sit patiently waiting and ready to click?
It's actually quite simple I set the camera on a sturdy tripod and took about 70 pictures before the battery went. Each exposure is 15 seconds long at f2.4/ISO50. Out of the 70 pictures I took, only about 12 captured lightning strikes.
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Nice pics!! Looks like a big storm as well...
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Originally Posted by mdc
I'm in tampa bay, and honestly, couldn't care who is the lightning capital. but if yours are bigger than some of the ones here, that's just scary.
some here have struck right next to a friend's car and set the car alarm off.
agreed
I was walking across the MLP (mobile launch platform) about 40 feet from the SRB'S. A bolt of lightning hit near by (within 100 feet). and that cause me to move really fast and off of the MLP surface. so far that was the closest.
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Originally Posted by iMOTOR
I tried to post this earlier, but the forum server was fubared.
Anyway, here are some shots I got of the lightning storm last night:
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Wow, that's just pimpy
I'm in SD right now and some of those thunders scared the crap out of me. Some of them were so loud that the floor was trembling!
Where abouts are you?
Oh, and can I "borrow" those images to put up on my site?
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fubar doesn't need an "ed" it's already past-tense.
Nice pic though.
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Beautiful, those are awesome pictures. Thanks for posting.
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Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob
What's that big plant on the left of the pictures? I don't think we have anything like that here in IL...
It's called a tree.
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Definitely love the pics. Thanks for posting!
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You make me wish my camera didn't suck.
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You make me wish I was a good photographer.
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Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob
What's that big plant on the left of the pictures? I don't think we have anything like that here in IL...
It is indeed the top an overgrown tree, I have no idea what species though, it has small burgundy leaves.
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Where abouts are you?
Oh, and can I "borrow" those images to put up on my site?
Sure, you can hot-link them if you wish, just as long as your page doesn't get too many hits
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Chino Hills?
Nope, more like North County SD
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You make me wish my camera didn't suck.
You and me both.
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Sweet pics iMotor! Thanks for posting.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by iMOTOR
I tried to post this earlier, but the forum server was fubared.
Anyway, here are some shots I got of the lightning storm last night:
Anyone else have extreme weather pics to share?
Not as cool as yours but I took that one earlier this year. Needless to say it scared the crap out of me and convinced me to get back inside... Notice the double lightning strike. Sorry about that quality : it was a 15 s handheld shot.
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It's easy to take photos if you have a digital camera with a video mode. Just shoot video where lightning has been hitting. After a while, you can extract the frame with a strike.
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Extremely cool pictures!
How did you take them (yes I know with a camera, but what kind, shutter speed, and so forth?)?
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Reason: Didn't see the reply a bit up...)
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Or if you have a traditional film camera, just stick it on a tripod and expose.
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Nice pics!
Here is one I took several years ago. It was dark enough that I could just hold the shutter open and wait, original is a 35mm slide.
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Originally Posted by vexborg
Extremely cool pictures!
How did you take them (yes I know with a camera, but what kind, shutter speed, and so forth?)?
Your best bet is to put a long exposure time). I think that f-6 gives enough exposure for the lightning to be exposed correctly at 200 ISO on a D70. Faster than that and it overexposed, slower and it is underexposed. The trick is at night you can have looong exposure time (i had about 15 s for my shot). It's fun to play with these digital cameras.
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Originally Posted by vexborg
How did you take them (yes I know with a camera, but what kind
It was a digital Olympus C-8080 on a Bogen 3021 tripod and 3030 head.
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Damn! Great shots dude!!! I HAVE to get me a digital camera now!
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With the colours in those pics it looks like something out of Sin City.
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I attempted this tonight, thanks for the idea.
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