Lightning pics

gwh
gwh Posts: 1,451
edited May 2009 in The Clubhouse
My bro. just snapped these off his front porch in Okla.





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  • sophie
    sophie Posts: 511
    edited May 2009
    how do you work out the timing? i have taken thousands of pics and only have a few that even have lightning in them...i just use a tripod and a 2sec shutter.


    these are all that had lightning in them out of about 500 i took one night.

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  • Ern Dog
    Ern Dog Posts: 2,237
    edited May 2009
    gwh wrote: »
    My bro. just snapped these off his front porch in Okla.





    G

    Cool pics, especially the first one.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited May 2009
    Nice pictures like the first one myself, I checked Payton and the shutter speed of that picture is 8 seconds. I see your's is 2 seconds.

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    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited May 2009
    Nice pictures
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited May 2009
    sophie wrote: »
    how do you work out the timing? i have taken thousands of pics and only have a few that even have lightning in them...i just use a tripod and a 2sec shutter.


    these are all that had lightning in them out of about 500 i took one night.

    Payton

    You don't time it, you just hold the shutter open till you get some strikes in the frame then close it.....
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited May 2009
    very nice pics and please keep that wonderful lightning right there in Okla and away from my rig ;)
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited May 2009
    I think someone already posted these. A badass shot.
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited May 2009
    venomclan wrote: »
    I think someone already posted these. A badass shot.

    Holy **** those are awesome pics!
    Looks like they were shot during a volcano eruption.

    Either that, or they're fake.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited May 2009
    I thought the thread read lightMAN pics!
    Had me scared for a second.

    Those are some cool a$$ pics!
    I don't have the reaction time to get shots like that.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited May 2009
    venomclan wrote: »
    I think someone already posted these. A badass shot.

    Understatement . . . they actually look like something out of a movie. Very BADASSS!!!
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited May 2009
    sophie wrote: »
    how do you work out the timing? i have taken thousands of pics and only have a few that even have lightning in them...i just use a tripod and a 2sec shutter.


    these are all that had lightning in them out of about 500 i took one night.

    Payton

    Manual focus, use bulb mode, low ISO, and high f-stop (i'd go around f16)

    Hold open the shutter for a while (up to 20 seconds) and wait for lightning, close when you capture lightning or are waiting too long on the exposure and need to try again. Tripod and remote shutter cable are must-haves.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited May 2009
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    Holy **** those are awesome pics!
    Looks like they were shot during a volcano eruption.

    Either that, or they're fake.
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Understatement . . . they actually look like something out of a movie. Very BADASSS!!!

    I thought these were fake at first, but I later saw them on a weather report about a volcano eruption I believe in S. America. The ash plume interacted (conducted?) with the lightning charge. It would be an awesome site to see, from a safe distance.
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  • timlitton
    timlitton Posts: 289
    edited May 2009
    PHOTOS: Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash and Lightning

    1_VOLCANO_461.jpg

    May 6, 2008
    After 9,000 years of silence, Chile's Chaitin volcano (pictured on May 3) is erupting with lava, ash and lightning.

    Since the volcano awoke on May 2, it has continued erupting intermittently, blanketing the area in ash and forcing more than 4,000 people to flee.

    The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a "dirty thunderstorm."

    The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.

    (Source:National Geographic)
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