More lightning photos.
Forgot to add this before.. I posted the rest of the lightning photos on my photo page. I quite like some of the earlier ones, even though they don’t necessarily have clearly visible strikes:
The way the sky is all lit up is pretty cool. The 2 that I posted in my journal before are the last 2 in the series. All in all I’m very pleased with the series of photos, and very grateful I had this oppurtunity to take the photos at all. Unless you live in an area prone to storms, chances like that don’t come along too often.
funjon said:
Jun 20, 04 at 3:55 pmWhat kind of camera are you using?
I just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D, so I plan to get some nice pictures like these. Too bad it never storms down here :)
brookula said:
Jun 20, 04 at 3:58 pmNice photos james. I was wandering around capitol hill when the storm started. I’m awfully glad I wasn’t at work taking all the outage calls that were surely rolling in.
jgurney said:
Jun 20, 04 at 4:08 pmWe hardly ever get storms here either, so this was a pretty rare occurence.
I took the photos with an Olympus E-10, Digital SLR. Aperture was set to F/11 to get the minimum of light coming in. The exposure was anything from about 3 seconds to 15 seconds, depending on how long I had to wait for a strike. With digital cameras, noise is a problem with long exposures in the dark, so anything over 10-15 seconds was pretty bad (although some of the ones in the gallery are around 15 seconds). Also used a wide angle lens to make sure I caught as much of the sky as possible..
Good luck with your new camera.. it’s a lot of fun going out shooting. I did a lot last summer and I’m hoping to do a lot more this year.
jgurney said:
Jun 20, 04 at 4:10 pmI’d actually pay money to do that:
Customer: The internet broke! wtf!
CSR: You may have noticed, the storm?
Customer: Storm?
CSR: You do know phone lines have a tendency to get struck by lightning during storms?
Customer: *zap* *clunk*
CSR: Have a nice day! *click*
strongbow said:
Jun 20, 04 at 9:21 pmDamn, that one is awesome!
What camera are you using again?
jgurney said:
Jun 21, 04 at 3:00 amSee details posted above in my reply to – the one with the messed up URL :)