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Nailed a lightning pic. :) Finally.
Posted:
Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:12 amby Killakoala
Yep, after months of trying hard to catch a lightning shot i finally got one out at the Penrith White Water Centre. At about 1530 (3:30pm) the BIG storm front passed overhead and i managed to get this nice clean bolt of energy.
Here it is. Tadah!!!!!
For a bigger pic try..
http://killakoala.smugmug.com/gallery/246380/1/15242595
(EDIT: img tag sorted.)
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:16 amby sirhc55
Well done Steve - orgasmic
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:17 amby JordanP
Nice one Killa,
I had my first go at lightning last night. It was quite fun but it can be hit and miss. I really like the way you have framed the shot given you had so much natural light to capture forground interest as well.
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:18 amby stubbsy
Nice one Steve. Big change from a day ro so before when you waited & waited & got diddly.
And the link has a superfluous [/img] - don't you love
phpBB sometimes - it should be:
http://killakoala.smugmug.com/gallery/246380/1/15242595
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:54 amby BBJ
Well done Steve, Bet u got a grin from ear 2 ear mate cos i would.
We all know it's not easy to get them and well we have all the wild weather down here in SA at the moment but no lightning so top shot mate.
Cheers
John
BBJ
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:55 amby jonnydee
Nice work! I had a go at lightning shots last night - ended up with ~150 identical shots of wet trees
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:57 amby MATT
Awesome,
Good work Killa, I dont think I will ever get a lightning shot, I'm to paranoid of getting hit.
MATT
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:13 amby Nnnnsic
That's a nice shot, Steve...
Congrats...
I tried the lightning... but was too low... for anything (had too many houses and apartments in the way)... I did get a lot of nice splishy-splashy rain drops though!
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:18 amby Glen
Well done Killa, I fely for you after your comments about 254 tries the other day
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:29 amby Killakoala
Thanks all,
I forgot to mention that the strike right after this one landed within 100 metres of where i was standing. The thunder scared the living daylights out of me, it was incredibly loud.
Reminded me of the time in Darwin when i was standing under a microwave transmission tower that was struck.......or the other time in Darwin when an HF radio antenna i was installing was also struck.....or the time when i was standing on the bridge of a boat and the mast was struck sending the power down the GPS antenna cable and into the GPS unit i was standing near, destoying the GPS unit.......etc......
One day this lightning thing will kill me...
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:12 pmby Mj
Hey there Steve... spotted your shot in the SMH earlier today... must hear from you how that happened !!!
Michael.
well done
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:58 pmby yeocsa
well done, mate.
How do you know when to press the shutter button?
regards,
Arthur
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:03 pmby gooseberry
Nice shot Killa,
Great timing - and with such a narrow frame, the chance of getting a lightning strike within it was small indeed.
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:21 pmby sheepie
well done
pity the lightning didn't hit one of the flag poles, eh!
You are pretty lucky you didn't get hit by the sounds of it - out there is NOT the place to be in a storm - there is NO cover at all!
You were a sitting duck
...now - did someone mention ducks? hehe
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:03 pmby Killakoala
MJ, easy, just posted an email to them via their link requesting storm pics and voilah!!!!, in it goes
Yeocsa I got this one by responding to the flashes with my super fast trigger finger on the shutter and handheld at 1/2 a second.
Gooseberry I cheated and cropped the original by about one third on either side of the flash to cut out the crap. (A hut and some uninteresting trees)
Sheepie As always, you make me laugh. We already have enough ducks on this site to open a Peking Duck House.
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:36 pmby Matt. K
Hi Steve
Great pic!....but how the hell did you nail it at 15oohr? Were you using ND filters or was it really dark?
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:58 pmby Killakoala
Matt, it was very dark for 1530
It was a very angry cloud.
Oh, and ISO 200 @ F22 helps too. Just checked the exif and it was shot at 1/8 not 1/2 as i thought it was. Even then i had to bump the lighting curve up so i reckon i could have gotten away with 1 sec exposure or more. I couldn't have hand held it that long though
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:31 pmby Rusty W. Griswald
The sky was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send soup back at a deli.
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:54 pmby Matt. K
Steve
To nail a lightening shot at 1/8th of a second is a fluke! Buy a lottery ticket.
Lightning shot
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Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:50 pmby ozimax
Good shot, well done.
I often hear lightning here up on the north coast, get in the car, drive up to the headland and every single time, I miss it! Or, it's raining so hard that it's not much use trying to photograph anything.
Oh well, if at first you don't succeed...
Max
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Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:28 pmby MHD
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Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:33 pmby Killakoala
The resemblance is
scary
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Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:01 pmby Glen
