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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.
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 composite uses earlier occurring lightning bolts from this storm: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/28952578812/in/album-7...
I applied minor saturation and darkened the original to create an interesting effect. Rain falling within the lightning channel took on some unusual coloration. All this was further enhanced with sunset colors.
Using a 85mm Nikkor f/1.4 lens with my DX SLR, gave a telephoto equivalent of ~127mm. Detail lightning structure is not normally captured with telephoto lenses and this image may actual capture subtle lightning structure, color, etc that is often missed with wider angle lenses.
Met up for dinner with some friends. Had to stop for a quick shot at the Washington Monument tonight. My daughter even got a good one on her iphone. So proud of her. My first ever and successful lightning photo.
Thanks for the Flickr blog feature!
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).
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.
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..
The storm kept getting closer and the thunder was continuous, but I never saw any lightning strike. As the first raindrops started falling on me I see this big strike right in front of me and at that moment I hear the camera taking the photo. I immediately check the camera and it was awesome seeing that I had captured it.
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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On the way home all around was lighting up, then i spotted the windmill in Essex, i just had to get wet, my first time ever doing lightning, this is a stacked image, three of the lightning and one of the windmill, all taken from the tripod with no movement.
I have recieved alot of questions about this picture, there was no trigger device. I am very humbled by all the very nice comments. Honestly there was a severe thunder and lightning storm just decided to grab the camera and try to get a good shot. Needless to say there was alot of luck involved. As many know Florida is the lightning capital of the World and this picture showed why. The building sustained severe electrical damage the whole phone and alarm system was fried.