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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.
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.
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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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.
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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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Branchy.
Small convoy of lightning makers lofted the Rim last night, aiming just east of Flagstaff. Instability (SB/ML) looked like trash north of I-40, so that's where I set up. Catch them as they arrive in spots where one can see. Most cases they would've dissipated after that, but these kept on trucking northeast. Mesoanalysis data updated at some point later & plotted out that oh yea there was a touch of elevated instability up that way. Should've picked Leupp Rd for closer, crispitier shots—but hindsight being what it is.
- 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.
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.
The International Lightning Festival held along the U.S.-Mexico border west of El Paso, Texas came together on short notice, but was well-attended, and the performances were quite electrifying.
A lightning storm quickly approached us in beautiful Bruce County, Ontario, Canada last night.
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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.
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...
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.
Where I am in Florida, we haven't seen rain in about 3 weeks or so. Last night we had a great storm roll through with lots of lightning.
Once the storm passed, I headed to the end of the driveway to make my first attempt at lightning shots.
I'm pretty please with the one I got out of the 50+ that I shot lol It's definitely something that is hit or miss.
Trio of Lightnings at Bruntingthorpe during a photoshoot with COAP & LPG to celebrate the new 56 squadron " Firebirds" livery.
Lightning captured over the St. Petersburg skyline.
Came across this gem from last month while backing up recent images. One shortcoming of RAW images, no thumbnail is created unless you've downloaded and installed the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack. Being late to the RAW party (and being guilty of not keeping up with all the latest offerings from Microsoft), I've only recently installed the codec pack, and as a result this image almost went unnoticed. Considering how ACR rendered the image with only some minor tweaking, that would have been a shame.
Exif info:
Nikon D3100
iso 100
f/8
20" exposure
Comments and feedback welcome.
This 30 second exposure captured a lightning bolt in the distance over Louisville, CO the other day!