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Lightning strike at Bear Mountain State Park overlook in New York State. The Hudson River is below and the Bear Mountain lodges are to the far right.
Nikon D810
Last night was a pretty cool lightning storm and I was lucky to have the Sheriton's 5th floor window for both a great vantage point and a dry place to shoot!
Though, really it would have been better to not shoot through a window, my polarizer did a pretty good job of cleaning up my frame, and I shot at 2.8 to avoid any dust or smudges.
This is actually two lightning shots and a third shot of the boat passing under the lift bridge blended together.
I've been blending images lately, many people do it for star trails, blurrier clouds, or here, in lightning bolts. I think it is a great way to essentially shoot bulb without having to actually bulb, but at the same time, I feel like I'm cheating. Maybe I'll stop, maybe I wont, I'm torn. Maybe I'll only use it sometimes. Anyway, I feel like without a disclaimer saying that I've blended more than one exposure, I would definitely be cheating.
Bangkok, taken from State Tower on the 57th floor. There is a boat a few meters from the striking point. The storm was so strong, lightnings every few seconds.
Storm passing through Alabama. Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge occuring typically during a thunderstorm. This discharge occurs between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between two clouds (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning).
This september storm produced dangerous, close lightning strikes at almost the same place, time after the time.....
So it was easy to know where to point the camera and then taking dozens of shots where the lightning could strike.
I was concerned about my safety, so I took shelter in the entrance of my greenhouse. I have many more shots of this event, but this was clearly the best....
In late July of 2016 we were treated to some insanely beautiful and powerful lightning displays in the midwest. By all accounts I probably should be dead from having been this close!
A slow moving cold front summer storm which allowed about an hour plus worth of lightning to slowly creep my way before the rains came.
This is a detail from a composite shot that I posted in the past. There had been some discussion around it so I thought I would give people a closer look.
Sunset colours, lightning and a rural outlook. One of those moments you hope for but rarely come together.
An unbelievable lightning storm last night passed us by to the North. This is an 8-second exposure. To watch it in real time was just amazing. Constant flickering with bolts coming out of the clouds with a speed that seemed like a time-lapse.
Here is the video I took with my phone.
When stacking lighting frames (in this case 18 frames), there is always a tendency to overdue the number of strikes. A balance between too many and too few is challenging. In this image, I could've used more than twice as many frames but the impact due to the loss of detail would have been obvious.
This lightning storm was captured using my Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 16-55mm @ 16mm, f/2.8, iso 3200, 0.25s exp per frame (movie mode @ 4K), I cropped the clip and extracted only the best strikes. Most lightning occurred between 15 and 25 miles to my south. This activity was over a 6.5 minute period.
Using my Nikon d3500, I took the 3rd consecutive 100 images of this lightning storm (~25x8s used) to see if I could develop the best stacking from the best lightning discharges. The final image turned out so-so. As conditions darkened after sunset, light scattered onto clouds by lightning becomes very problematic. There are techniques to improve on this stacking but it requires considerable post-processing to achieve.
Note limited cloud to ground strikes. Two sets of crawlers at top left criss-crossed each other within 3 minutes.
Storm was 14 to 25 miles distant.
Trio of Lightnings at Bruntingthorpe during a photoshoot with COAP & LPG to celebrate the new 56 squadron " Firebirds" livery.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - For over 4 hours thunderstorms moved past Devils Tower, which was not even in the forecast. The lightning was difficult to expose for, because some flashes were super bright while others were dim. But this was my favorite shot of lightning jumping out from behind the clouds.
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My first attempt at lightning shots.
All of the lightning bolts were within and around the towering cloud, they were not (not that I could see) discharging to the ground. I had to lower the exposure of each shot to find the bolts within the white mass of recorded light. Plus a little cropping..
Storm 9pm 8th Dec 2009
ISO 3200 24mm f/8.0 6.0secs tripod
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Images or an RAF F-35b Lightning (ZM157) as it finish's its short display at the RAF Fairford Airshow (RIAT) 2022
Natures lightshow. I was over the drink drive limit when this one rocked up, so couldn't really go anywhere......I just stood in my front porch as it flashed all around me.
Lightning captured after a long chase seeing numerous supercells. The lightning creates the shape of a dog's head. Taken near Ogallala, Nebraska.
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between that cloud and another cloud (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning). The charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through this discharge referred to as a strike if it hits an object on the ground, and a flash if it occurs within a cloud. Lightning causes light in the form of plasma, and sound in the form of thunder. Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or flash.
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft. For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local weather up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away.
Supercells are often put into three classification types: Classic, Low-precipitation (LP), and High-precipitation (HP). LP supercells are usually found in climates that are more arid, such as the high plains of the United States, and HP supercells are most often found in moist climates. Supercells can occur anywhere in the world under the right pre-existing weather conditions, but they are most common in the Great Plains of the United States in an area known as Tornado Alley.
Typically, supercells are found in the warm sector of a low pressure system propagating generally in a north easterly direction in line with the cold front of the low pressure system. Because they can last for hours, they are known as quasi-steady-state storms. Supercells have the capability to deviate from the mean wind. If they track to the right or left of the mean wind (relative to the vertical wind shear), they are said to be "right-movers" or "left-movers," respectively. Supercells can sometimes develop two separate updrafts with opposing rotations, which splits the storm into two supercells: one left-mover and one right-mover.
Supercells can be any size â large or small, low or high topped. They usually produce copious amounts of hail, torrential rainfall, strong winds, and substantial downbursts. Supercells are one of the few types of clouds that typically spawn tornadoes within the mesocyclone, although only 30% or fewer do so.
One from last night's impressive storm. I got more successful lightning pictures last night/this morning, than any other storm I've photographed and all from the spare bedroom window. It was interesting to see that when the intensity of the strikes varied, so did the colour of the sky...
The last night of my last Lubec workshop of the year went out with a bang as we photographed a lightning storm over Johnson Bay. I was struggling to remember how to use my lightning trigger that I had bought a few years ago and only tested once, so I ended up doing most shots by hand and only got a couple shots that had any amount of lightning in them. By the time I figured out the trigger the storm was moving behind us and we couldnât see much of the lightning anymore.
Nikon D850 with NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm, f/4, ISO 800, 1 second.
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