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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.
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Lightning storm shot under the PATH train bridge between Jersey City, NJ and Kearny, NJ. Looking West and the badlands of New Jersey.
Nikon D800
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.
Electrical Storm in Sydney on the evening of 6th January 2025. Multiple lightning strikes beyond the Blue Mountains from SW Sydney.
Final image of 22 strikes across 16 stacked images.
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- 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.
Respect! South East Queensland has had some serious storms during the last week. Over 265,000 strikes were recorded in one night, and the storm left 130,000 homes in Brisbane without power. This impressive formation was captured from nearby hinterlands looking towards the Gold Coast.
Lightning behind Darwin harbours tug boats, from a multi cell thunderstorm that lasted several hours in the early hours of 17th December 2016
Now this is new to me and trying to capture Lightning is not easy, Out of the 400 plus image i took last night this was the best one. This was down at sandbanks and Brownsea island in front of you.
This is a quick and dirty stacking of 21 lightning images. The quick part is to place the images in camera raw, reduce exposure so only lightning is clearly visible, save, then stack into Photoshop, lighten resulting image then lighten exposure as necessary to bring out the foreground.
This method avoids using masks for nearly each image in the stack. The downside is that some movement (leafs, clouds, cars, etc.) will not be fixed and sharp. That's the dirty side of this technique. Sometimes the images can tolerate less post-processing.
iLightningCam2 app was used for this night display.
For a really crazy stacking of lightning, see: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/34303851190/.
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View of a storm and lightning over Pennsylvania near Allentown.
Nikon D800e
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.
This is easy to do. It's just a photo of my hand. The clouds, birds and light rays are Photoshop "brushes". It did take many attempts to get the combination of cloud brushes look good. The lightning was added by using a Photoshop filter. ("Alien Skin Xenofex 2" filter. )
This 30 second exposure captured a lightning bolt in the distance over Louisville, CO the other day!
About two weeks before our trip, we had planned a couple days in Taos and also along a lake in New Mexico for one night. As there was not much else around that lake for Ms. K to check out I started to think another location for a night was in order. I noticed that between Taos and the Painted Desert that we were planning to visit there was Canyon de Chelly National Monument. A little research and I was quickly changing around our planned route and stays and included one night here.
Boy was I so very happy we did this. What a grand location this park is and the lands around it ... as well as the local Navajo Indians that we met there.
For sunrise as I was heading out in the dark, there was one major thunderstorm going on even there in the morning. I hiked out to one of the many canyon overlooks there and set my exposure for 30 seconds at the higher ISO in order to get some lightning captures.
The alignment of the near full moon lighting the canyon (the moon was to my back here and in clearer skies) helped as well. A fine alignment of light, storm, and scenery for me to have some fun in. It was also lucky that this storm was moving away from this location as the sunrise continued.
This is a super wide field that was cropped. This anvil crawler was actually very close.
11 movie frames were used to capture this single event.
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.
Probably the most impressive nature phenomenon is the lightning. And it is always great fun to try to capture some of them. When you look at the screen of your camera you start to realize how gigantic they are.
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door
Lightning crashes, an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now, to the baby down the hall
Oh now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
This moment she's been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide
Oh now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel…
~Live~
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English Electric Lightning F.53 53-672, painted in 74 Squadron markings as F.6 XR768/A, under the lights at Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Airport during a Threshold Aero night shoot.
First time I manage to get a really good shot of lightning, just after we arrived home from our vacation in Denmark.