Lightning Ahoy!
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:24 pmwell, it won me 5th place so i guess its worth a mention.
Anyho, the story behind it and a couple of others, is that we were down south at a friends beach house with "just the boys" ... on the drive down some impressive storms were rolling in on the way down, and as we settled into our 3rd bourbon, a front started to approach, so i tore off down the beach with d70 and manfrotto and stop atop a sand dune, doing constant 1 and 2 minute bulb exposures, cycling and cycling the shots waiting to capture ... wind was a bit of an issue so some shots got blurred but the tripod is fairly sturdy.
There is something stupid about standing on a bare dune, with a 6ft tripod, facing a fierce electrical front ... my nerve ran out when bolts started hitting the BEACH about 1km north of me, scurried back to the safety of the beach house
All shot NEF, then PP'd with signifigant saturation boosting and levels etc. At 68 seconds and sometimes less they were a bit dark without the PP, but with wind and CCD heating, i avoided anything longer. (and didnt run NR jobs as i didnt want the lag)
"power trip" was taken from under an eave, on the balcony as the front really approached ... for a bunch of mates who arent into photography, the enthusiasm from them was outstanding, there were probably 50 different bolts that were striking all around us ... the worst part of this story is that as it landed, i ran out of batteries. Talk about amateur, no charger was brought with. (and id forgotten to charge my spare). The camera was soaking wet by the end of it, but hey what a bit of water to go with the usual dust, snow, sand that my d70 gets belted with. Damn good body i say
With the first one, i was actually wondering if anyone things a Pano Aspect Ratio crop would suit or not.
Natures Anger ;
Colour of Life
Colour of life has blue light from lightning, orange from coastal lights, and the red in the clouds is the coastal lights after going through the clouds ... looks like only the red spectrum got through? ;
Power Trip ;
And a few otehrs that didnt quite make the cut ;
"Brooding"
Anyho, the story behind it and a couple of others, is that we were down south at a friends beach house with "just the boys" ... on the drive down some impressive storms were rolling in on the way down, and as we settled into our 3rd bourbon, a front started to approach, so i tore off down the beach with d70 and manfrotto and stop atop a sand dune, doing constant 1 and 2 minute bulb exposures, cycling and cycling the shots waiting to capture ... wind was a bit of an issue so some shots got blurred but the tripod is fairly sturdy.
There is something stupid about standing on a bare dune, with a 6ft tripod, facing a fierce electrical front ... my nerve ran out when bolts started hitting the BEACH about 1km north of me, scurried back to the safety of the beach house
All shot NEF, then PP'd with signifigant saturation boosting and levels etc. At 68 seconds and sometimes less they were a bit dark without the PP, but with wind and CCD heating, i avoided anything longer. (and didnt run NR jobs as i didnt want the lag)
"power trip" was taken from under an eave, on the balcony as the front really approached ... for a bunch of mates who arent into photography, the enthusiasm from them was outstanding, there were probably 50 different bolts that were striking all around us ... the worst part of this story is that as it landed, i ran out of batteries. Talk about amateur, no charger was brought with. (and id forgotten to charge my spare). The camera was soaking wet by the end of it, but hey what a bit of water to go with the usual dust, snow, sand that my d70 gets belted with. Damn good body i say
With the first one, i was actually wondering if anyone things a Pano Aspect Ratio crop would suit or not.
Natures Anger ;
Colour of Life
Colour of life has blue light from lightning, orange from coastal lights, and the red in the clouds is the coastal lights after going through the clouds ... looks like only the red spectrum got through? ;
Power Trip ;
And a few otehrs that didnt quite make the cut ;
"Brooding"
but it's cool i don't have my camera with me 
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