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Oklahoma Lightning
On Memorial Day 2000, I drove south out of Norman, Oklahoma at around 11:00pm, attempting to catch up to a small storm which was located to the south of Noble and moving slowly eastward. Pulling over on a small dirt road, in pitch black surroundings, I was behind and to the north of the thunderstorm, staring almost straight upwards at the side of an updraft only occasionally illuminated by crawling fingers of lightning. The lightning strokes danced in and out of the thunderstorm updraft, making them somewhat difficult to photograph. It took approximatly 15 minutes and about 10 wasted slides before I caught a decent exposure. A singular lightning stroke, illuminating the background clouds in a purple haze, set against a silhouette of the top of a nearby tree. Not the most exceptional lightning photograph I've taken, but rather an example of how simple can work when shooting lightning, as long as the background cloud illumination is sufficient.
One of the great things about shooting slide film is how smooth the transition is from dark sky to bright lightning channel. Digital can not yet duplicate this due to the linear response from CCDs.
See the rest of my lightning photos
Oklahoma Lightning
On Memorial Day 2000, I drove south out of Norman, Oklahoma at around 11:00pm, attempting to catch up to a small storm which was located to the south of Noble and moving slowly eastward. Pulling over on a small dirt road, in pitch black surroundings, I was behind and to the north of the thunderstorm, staring almost straight upwards at the side of an updraft only occasionally illuminated by crawling fingers of lightning. The lightning strokes danced in and out of the thunderstorm updraft, making them somewhat difficult to photograph. It took approximatly 15 minutes and about 10 wasted slides before I caught a decent exposure. A singular lightning stroke, illuminating the background clouds in a purple haze, set against a silhouette of the top of a nearby tree. Not the most exceptional lightning photograph I've taken, but rather an example of how simple can work when shooting lightning, as long as the background cloud illumination is sufficient.
One of the great things about shooting slide film is how smooth the transition is from dark sky to bright lightning channel. Digital can not yet duplicate this due to the linear response from CCDs.
See the rest of my lightning photos