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Sep 20, 2005, 11:11 AM
 
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?
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 11:17 AM
 
oh wow. cool.
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 11:22 AM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 11:26 AM
 
Dude those are sweet! Thanks for sharing!!!
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 11:30 AM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 11:38 AM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 11:48 AM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 11:58 AM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 12:09 PM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 12:24 PM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 01:09 PM
 
Nice pics!! Looks like a big storm as well...

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Sep 20, 2005, 01:32 PM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 02:02 PM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 02:31 PM
 
fubar doesn't need an "ed" it's already past-tense.

Nice pic though.
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 03:40 PM
 
Beautiful, those are awesome pictures. Thanks for posting.

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Chino Hills?
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 05:20 PM
 
Whoa! Wei cool!
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Sep 20, 2005, 06:27 PM
 
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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Sep 20, 2005, 06:43 PM
 
Definitely love the pics. Thanks for posting!
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 06:52 PM
 
You make me wish my camera didn't suck.
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Sep 20, 2005, 06:57 PM
 
You make me wish I was a good photographer.
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 08:22 PM
 
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.



Originally Posted by E's Lil Theorem
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


Originally Posted by alphasubzero949
Chino Hills?

Nope, more like North County SD
     
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Sep 20, 2005, 08:35 PM
 
Tree - http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/graphics/oak.gif
??? (A "Tree") - http://members.lycos.co.uk/kbotc/???.png

I mean, it looks maybe like a crappy pine tree that had have of it blown off.
     
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Sep 21, 2005, 05:54 AM
 
Originally Posted by Lateralus
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Sep 21, 2005, 06:27 AM
 
Sweet pics iMotor! Thanks for posting.

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Sep 21, 2005, 06:52 AM
 
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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Sep 21, 2005, 08:37 AM
 
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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Sep 21, 2005, 08:58 AM
 
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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Sep 21, 2005, 01:36 PM
 
Or if you have a traditional film camera, just stick it on a tripod and expose.
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Sep 21, 2005, 01:46 PM
 
nice pics.
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Sep 21, 2005, 02:42 PM
 
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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Sep 21, 2005, 05:28 PM
 
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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Sep 21, 2005, 08:00 PM
 
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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Sep 22, 2005, 02:24 AM
 
Damn! Great shots dude!!! I HAVE to get me a digital camera now!
     
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Sep 22, 2005, 02:27 AM
 
With the colours in those pics it looks like something out of Sin City.

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Sep 22, 2005, 03:26 AM
 
I attempted this tonight, thanks for the idea.



     
   
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