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Oklahoma Lightning
The KOUN S-band research radar, located at the NSSL in Norman, OK, basked in a purple glow from a nearby lightning stroke. Photographed during a thunderstorm in May 2003, this is the last lightning shot I took while in Oklahoma.
Our chase team had just returned from deploying weather balloons, and I waited behind the main building, with the Doppler radar in my field of view, until the lightning began to pick up as a thunderstorm entered town. The purple sky is a typical result from shooting Fuji Velvia 50 slide film, as is the yellow coloring of the foreground. This shot turned out to be one of my best catches ever, I think because it combined the soft quality of the illuminated clouds with the sharp detail of the individual lightning channels - an effect that is not possible when shooting lightning with a digital SLR.
Slide film allows for a smooth transition between darker sky to brighter lightning channels. Digital can't duplicate this due to the linear response from CCDs.
See the rest of my lightning photos
Oklahoma Lightning
The KOUN S-band research radar, located at the NSSL in Norman, OK, basked in a purple glow from a nearby lightning stroke. Photographed during a thunderstorm in May 2003, this is the last lightning shot I took while in Oklahoma.
Our chase team had just returned from deploying weather balloons, and I waited behind the main building, with the Doppler radar in my field of view, until the lightning began to pick up as a thunderstorm entered town. The purple sky is a typical result from shooting Fuji Velvia 50 slide film, as is the yellow coloring of the foreground. This shot turned out to be one of my best catches ever, I think because it combined the soft quality of the illuminated clouds with the sharp detail of the individual lightning channels - an effect that is not possible when shooting lightning with a digital SLR.
Slide film allows for a smooth transition between darker sky to brighter lightning channels. Digital can't duplicate this due to the linear response from CCDs.
See the rest of my lightning photos