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Taken during the afternoon of 16 July 20 using Nikon P950 in video mode. Video captured 14 frames which were stacked and lightened in Photoshop.
These strikes were between 6 and 10 miles away. Unusual to have bright sunlight with all this electrical activity.
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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.
No selective colour for this shot ie the grey bridge is solely due to the crazy rainfall at the time!
Using a Miops trigger for the first time for lightning shots was interesting... 85% sensitivity picked up a lot of shot but almost all the bolts were hidden in clouds. Only 5 shots with visible strikes over a couple of hours. A number of storm cells came in with strong winds giving nearly horizontal torrential rain, I discovered that my hiking pants were not waterproof and my boot started filling up with water even with a big umbrella.
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.
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).
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.
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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