Pond Skater
Lightning
A bit of planning that worked after a fashion ;-) I'd been watching thunderstorms on the works radar building up all day so got home and watched this site;
www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
saw a storm pass over Camborne, another over Portland, and then one started heading towards us, so we drove to the top of Stoke hill, set the camera on tripod and interval timer and sat in the car/Faraday cage.
NEXT time I'll take the laptop to keep an eye on the radar as we guessed wrong as to which side of the hill to go to and although we had a great view of the storm it was the wrong side of the road to point the camera at , so I got a lot of black images and 2 distant shots as it moved away.
These are crops as the strikes are a good 5 miles away, what I thought was horizon is actually a low bank of cloud with a village to the lower left.
As a ps. my g/f has got decent images in daylight by pressing the shutter when she sees the flash as the ionisation lasts long enough to take an image.
Lightning
A bit of planning that worked after a fashion ;-) I'd been watching thunderstorms on the works radar building up all day so got home and watched this site;
www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
saw a storm pass over Camborne, another over Portland, and then one started heading towards us, so we drove to the top of Stoke hill, set the camera on tripod and interval timer and sat in the car/Faraday cage.
NEXT time I'll take the laptop to keep an eye on the radar as we guessed wrong as to which side of the hill to go to and although we had a great view of the storm it was the wrong side of the road to point the camera at , so I got a lot of black images and 2 distant shots as it moved away.
These are crops as the strikes are a good 5 miles away, what I thought was horizon is actually a low bank of cloud with a village to the lower left.
As a ps. my g/f has got decent images in daylight by pressing the shutter when she sees the flash as the ionisation lasts long enough to take an image.