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On 18 August, 2008 was like any other summer monsoon evening. I started out around 7 P.M. to try and catch a few lightning strikes. I postioned myself around the new Cochise County Courthouse Complex in hope of catching a strike using the building as a measure for depthness.I had some luck this past summer doing this with other objects. The storm's were passing through on the back side of the building and heading southward. I had captured two or three lightning strikes earlier in the evening from this same location. Around 9 P.M. I was about to call it a night when in a matter of a millisecond this strike happened. When the image appeared on my LCD I suprised how much detail there was in this strike. It was the last lightning strike that I saw that evening. I feel lucky, or call it fate that I stayed as long as I did, or I would have never gotten this shot.
This isn't the closest lightning strike I've encountered, but it is the closest I've encountered while outside. This picture was shot at 17mm, so the bolt was even closer than it looks. A little too close. June 1st, 2018. Outside Ord, Nebraska.
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During last nights little storm I got to see and was lucky enough to capture one of the largest lightning bolts I have ever seen
Lightning strikes behind the building formally known as the John Hancock Center and the Chicago skyline late on a Spring evening.
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This is a series of long exposures capturing the flashes of lightning from an incoming storm. We set up this shot on the side of the road so we could also capture the headlights and taillights from passing cars. We think the colorful horizontal lights from the cars made an interest contrast to the vertical strikes of lightning.
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Exposure 30
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 55 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Lightning and Fireflies with the head lights of a truck. This storm in Nebraska was really hotting up, it was one of the best displays I have seen to date!
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Here's another lightning shot from three days ago. It's been lightning here daily in the evening for last few days, and I was so delighted to have been able to capture this strike! It was truly awesome! This shot shows the IIT campus as seen from Hostel 12, with the lightning bolt striking precisely on the Victor Menezes Convention Center (VMCC). It was one hell of a sight.!
The province of Zuid-Holland had a restless evening and night with many thunderstorms. The last storm produced some vivid lightning strikes, some of them leaving the storm as can be seen on the photograph.
I took this picture exactly 5 years ago: 26.06.2009 at 03:24 AM from the window of my student dormitory, with a tripod and 30 seconds exposure.
After I took it and looked at the screen of my camera I just went crazy and woke up all my colleagues in the dorm room.
Now I have it as a painting in my bedroom and I still cannot believe it was real.
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A lightning storm passing off the coast of Redhead, NSW, Australia
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We had some of the closest, most spectacular and most frequent lightning I have ever seen. With the lightning hitting the other side of the road from us, this was just another close shave on this amazing chase day in Nebraska.
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A good lightning photo made in the old days with 35mm negative film. Used was a second hand 55mm prime lens.
I remember I woke up at the end of the night because of the sound of thunder: a northward moving storm was passing my location to the east, producing a lot of vivid lightning bolts.
After the storm, at sunrise, strange altocumulus clouds (I think they were gravity waves) passed my place.
I have a question for any experts out there. Anyone with knowledge of lightning and atmospherics, and also anyone with working knowledge of camera sensors.
I took these two shots yesterday, more in hope than anything, Being lucky enough to have the Sony RX10 that shoots at 24 frames per second, I pointed at the sky across the street and held the shutter for a second. I got lucky and managed these two shots. Not very exciting looking, being daylight lightning shots, but I am intrigued by the difference in the two shots. They are consecutive frames 1/24th of a second apart. Bolt 1 shows up the brightest, and actually shows the lightning in its ground to air phase and the bolt is only half completed. Lightning bolt 2 shows the completed bolt all the way to the cloud, but is fading in brightness. The bolt itself was very close with barely a second elapsing between flash and the window rattling thunderclap!
My puzzle is the first shot that shows a purple halo around the upward end of the lightning, and a corresponding colour shift across the image in the sky below the top of the lightning.
I'd love to know is this just an issue with the sensor and its response to a sudden intense flash, or is it atmospheric?
My guess is the sensor, but I'd love to hear other opinions or experiences.
These two shots are both cropped heavily from the left half of the wide angle image, hence the slight distortion in the vertical lines of the house.
Sometimes the bolt is big - and close!
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A slow moving complex of cells took full advantage of the plentiful energy around the Great Lakes and produced a ton of lightning. This was one of about 10 bolts I managed to catch back on July 10th, 2020.
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The big lightning storm that had slammed into lower Manhattan was now moving across the East River and into Brooklyn. I ran to a vantage point of the bridge, and set up quickly so as not to miss this rare opportunity. It was a natural fireworks display just a couple of weeks after the Brooklyn Bridge's anniversary pyrotechnic display.
I stood on the Manhattan side of the East River, which remained eerily calm, shooting continuously for the next 15 minutes. My camera was getting hot to the touch. I couldn't stop to check exposures, framing or even focus, as if I did, I knew I'd miss the most perfect lightning during those precious seconds! As it was, I missed a disturbing number of the best lightning bolts, which perversely kept exploding during the milliseconds between shutter releases. So I drew on all I have learned from previous night photography, and just kept going nonstop without checking what I was shooting, hoping for the best.
Finally the show wound down, and I went off to meet my wife. She hadn't heard the thunder, old New York buildings have thick walls!
The next morning I got up early and sold usage rights for this one to the Daily News, where it ran as a color spread in their Tuesday edition.
What a wild and windy night, experiencing 60 mph gusts. By the time the wind had calmed down enough to get any photos, the lightning was off in the distance. We were sitting on the hill north of town and caught this over the east side of Beaver.
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June 29th, 2015 brought some epic lightning with the monsoons! I was lucky enough to be able to capture it from Antelope Meadows in Prescott Valley. This is a composite of just 5 photos taken over the course of about 3 minutes. I used photoshop to compile the images together. This was an active and loud storm! Winds were gusting up to around 50 mph. I had to hold down my tripod to prevent it from shaking!
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A large lightning bolt hits the ground with a stunning sunset. The orange and yellow sky is not only caused by the sunset but also because of dust kicked up by the storm along with the backlit rain and hail. Taken near the town of Mangum, Oklahoma 25th May 2018.
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The scale is humbling, can you spot the herd of cattle? Captured with a DIY lightning trigger June 11 near Bar U ranch, AB
A line of severe thunderstorms passed along the coast of southern California last night (and later spread around the county, including right over my house!). I was teaching a college class through Zoom, but managed to get two decent shots at my 20 minute break (from my patio)! This was early evening and there is some residual sunset color there, and the lightning was somewhat distant. I shot in daylight white balance mode and the images turned out very warm.
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Cropped from a wide angle 8 second exposure. This was taken at the end of the storm. The tornado sirens kept us in the basement when it was really lightning up.
My method, your results may vary: set camera on tripod under cover of garage, wide angle lens in general direction of lightning, full manual operation of camera, manual focus on infinity, ISO 100, 8 sec exposure (fastest for SD card write in my camera, 10+ seconds took too long between shots) with f/8 or f/9 (depends on shutter speed and sky lightness; I try to get a dark image when there is no lightning in the frame). Press shutter, when done, press shutter again, and again, and again (as long as lightning is in the area). Out of 120 photos, 7 had lighting; this was the best and still needed a crop. The wide angle worked best for me as it more likely captured the entire lightning bolt.
Of course luck plays a role in it too!
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Here is one from the storm earlier in the week...I merged 9 shots for this one...Only problem with it was there were 6 powerlines right through the middle that I had to remove...I am hopeless with PS but Lightroom wasn't doing a good job of it so persevered with PS and finally got there I think.Only my second try at merging lightning..
Massive multiple lightning strikes on Constantia Kloof, Johannesburg, South Africa. NOT a multiple exposure. This is probably one of the most spectacular lightning strikes that I have seen and photographed!
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A day time lightning bolt on the backside of a strengthening thunderstorm on July 10th, 2020. I have a good ten bolts produced by this cell. After strengthening, it produced a landspout in the town of Milton about 30 minutes later.
Multiple lightning flashes behind the breakwater as the thunderstorm approaches Herttoniemi from the sea.
So deep down I was a little excited to be going to Florida for Spring Break a quick work trip because of the proximity of crazy spring break kids possibility for good sunsets and the prospect of a good work environment. But instead of bringing suntan lotion and a Borat “mankini” I should have brought an umbrella and rain booties. Tampa experienced one of the fiercest storms on record dumping as much as 4” of rain in an hour, 80mph winds and was in an all-day tornado warning. Two tornados touched down within a mile of where I was working which put the base on lockdown and the building power went out.
Being the typical Californian, I wanted to go out in the middle of it to experience the crazy weather, so I drove to Clearwater Wednesday afternoon hoping for a sunset, but instead got an intense electric storm. I met another guy there who was much more experienced in photographing lightning and was willing to share some secrets. I positioned this shot straight down the middle of the old slabs used to keep the pier up, and was safe under the existing part of it (as you can see from the map to the right) I was doing rapid-fire 15” shots and then commanded lightning to strike right in the middle (yes, I pointed like Babe Ruth), and sure enough a couple minutes later… I got it. I was thrilled but he was upset because he’s been trying to get that shot for years. Beginner's luck.
This was all I got from my trip. Literally. Well besides the drunken shots of us all salsa dancing at night.
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