Bàrcola Seafront, Trieste, FVG, Italia
17-august-2021: the shot was taken by the Trieste North Coast (Barcola here), towards the strong storm that affected the far South-East of Slovenia and North-Eastern Gorski Kotar in Kvarner Croatia, last August 17, in the queue of the front that skipped the Gulf of Trieste completely; all this, after a night in search of 1 thunderbolt, forced me to position the tripod in a direction full of obstacles, to catch last lightnings (that are not "easy" as bolt-strikes) before hidden behind the Trieste Karst ridge.
Lightnings, for human eye, are as flashes, given by cloud to cloud or even cloud-ground bolt/strikes, where the ground is hidden, thus illuminating the structural complex of the thundercloud.
The light is given by a lot of lightning-flashes accumulated in about 60 seconds with intermediate lens aperture and ISO 125.
Now, for bolts this long exposure "technique" is appropriate, for lightning it is only an alternative of the "poor photographer", as each lightning has illuminated the cloud at a different time and therefore it is "in motion" losing a lot of detail; such a photo should be taken, perhaps in another context, with a maximum exposure time of 1 second, with an aperture and a lens brightness that only a reflex camera can have, also counting on the fact that it must be increased much the ISO sensitivity, which in a prosumer would create too much grain/noise.
The photo would then take up a couple of flashes at most, making the most of them and keeping the cloud and its structure immobile, thus becoming bright and defined.
I have to do otherwise, but I am satisfied because, between one compromise and another, in the end I shoot in all conditions, taking with me the minimum weight of a prosumer superzoom single lens without having to change the expensive lenses of a reflex with rain, snow, powder and salt.
On the one hand, I lose the opportunity to take shots from a meteorological atlas (lens less bright, less sharp, less sensitive...), but, on the other, I feel extremely light, a bit like my wallet!
Bàrcola Seafront, Trieste, FVG, Italia
17-august-2021: the shot was taken by the Trieste North Coast (Barcola here), towards the strong storm that affected the far South-East of Slovenia and North-Eastern Gorski Kotar in Kvarner Croatia, last August 17, in the queue of the front that skipped the Gulf of Trieste completely; all this, after a night in search of 1 thunderbolt, forced me to position the tripod in a direction full of obstacles, to catch last lightnings (that are not "easy" as bolt-strikes) before hidden behind the Trieste Karst ridge.
Lightnings, for human eye, are as flashes, given by cloud to cloud or even cloud-ground bolt/strikes, where the ground is hidden, thus illuminating the structural complex of the thundercloud.
The light is given by a lot of lightning-flashes accumulated in about 60 seconds with intermediate lens aperture and ISO 125.
Now, for bolts this long exposure "technique" is appropriate, for lightning it is only an alternative of the "poor photographer", as each lightning has illuminated the cloud at a different time and therefore it is "in motion" losing a lot of detail; such a photo should be taken, perhaps in another context, with a maximum exposure time of 1 second, with an aperture and a lens brightness that only a reflex camera can have, also counting on the fact that it must be increased much the ISO sensitivity, which in a prosumer would create too much grain/noise.
The photo would then take up a couple of flashes at most, making the most of them and keeping the cloud and its structure immobile, thus becoming bright and defined.
I have to do otherwise, but I am satisfied because, between one compromise and another, in the end I shoot in all conditions, taking with me the minimum weight of a prosumer superzoom single lens without having to change the expensive lenses of a reflex with rain, snow, powder and salt.
On the one hand, I lose the opportunity to take shots from a meteorological atlas (lens less bright, less sharp, less sensitive...), but, on the other, I feel extremely light, a bit like my wallet!