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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.
Did a quick blend of 2 images from storm from last night...First time I have blended lightning so I was pretty happy with result of first try...Blended in StarStax..
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.
a superb thunder and mainly lightning storm over home in the early hours that lasted just shy of 3 hours
produced some excellent display I just managed to get this on my phone at the right time.
the sky was lighting up like headlights flashing it was terrific
Daylight lightning strikes taken with Nikon P950 (movie mode) and stacked / lightened (6 frames) in Photoshop. Rolling scan created banded artifacts with the brightest bolts (unavoidable).
First decent lightning storm this season. In deep twilight, I stacked 14 images to create this composite.
Daylight stacked and cropped frames lightened in Photoshop. Taken on 20 May from Nikon d3500 in movie mode.
The video recorded for a period of 6m46s.
There was a beautiful lightning storm last night at my mom's house, and I couldn't resist trying to get some shots. :) I didn't have my tripod though, so I had to use some extra bricks laying around. Haha. :)
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I have a new photo series that I'll hopefully be doing soon! It's just a mini series, with three images, and a video (no idea how I'm going to do that one. Haha), so keep an eye out for those! I want to take my photography in a slightly different direction, and I'm hoping this is the right way.
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Five Lightning F.6s at Binbrook, August 1984. This was at an event to mark 25 years of RAF service by the Lightning. It was rare to see other than solo Lightning displays and as a rule these were performed using the lighter F.3 version.
A beautiful display of lightning tonight over the Space Coast of Florida as the 22% Waxing Crescent Moon tries to hide behind the clouds, seen from Melbourne.
Pic: me
(And a well-deserved shout-out to the man, the myth, the legend, John Kraus of John Kraus Photos for consultative advice with this edit. If you aren't following him, you should be.)