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Well, we had poor weather tonight! It was like 80 yesterday and tomorrow there is a chance of snow!! Thats Ohio for ya! Well, we had a huge thunderstorm roll through so there was no chance of getting out the scope. I decided to make the best out of imaging though. This may be off topic, so hope no one minds, but this is all I got to see tonight. I was bored so thought I would post it for fun. Oh well, maybe I'll have better luck next weekend. Should have known, I just bought a scopetronix adapter for my A95 too!! 
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Rushwind
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Holy cow, what a gorgeous shot. How long was the exposure?
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Ben Ritchie
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Wow! That's a really cool picture 
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Anonymous
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VERY VERY NICE man.
greetz steve
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Suk Lee
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Wow! I'd be happy with *that*
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Anonymous
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Hey guys, thanks. That was a 4 second exposure at ISO400. Not a bad 'lucky' shot I guess. I took around 200 shots and I think that I only got about 5 with anything visible. It's kinda hard to predict when a lightning bolt will appear. Oh well, I had fun. Thanks again for the comments.
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Anonymous
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Shooting lightning is a passion of mine, although it seems like I can never get a good position (ie, the lightning is either too far away or its right on top of me and raining like a banshee). A lot of my shots got lost in a hard drive crash but heres one that I still have:
http://home.mchsi.com/~saloper/001lightning.jpg
Edited by Nicholas Loper (04/28/05 11:05 AM)
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Anonymous
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Nicholas...Wow, thats really good! How did you keep it from over exposing? Also, your colors look better than mine. Did you use a digital camera? You are right, ligtning is very hard to capture! Quite rewarding and unique if you do though. Any suggestions for a beginner?
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Dave M
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That is a cool shot, and as mentioned lightning is rather
tough to capture.
I`m waiting for a night like i had three or four years ago,
the sky was filled with spider lightning for about an hour
or so before the main event rolled in, duno why i didnt
grab the camera but i havnt had lightning like that since.
Odd thing is theres all that spider lightning but no thunder.
Did you use film or digital ?
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zjc26138
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Wow, that is a really cool shot.
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Chris Graham
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I would love to be able to captur a shot like that.
The weather is something i really like learning about but we dont really get many lightning storms here.
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Anonymous
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Quote:
Nicholas...Wow, thats really good! How did you keep it from over exposing? Also, your colors look better than mine. Did you use a digital camera? You are right, ligtning is very hard to capture! Quite rewarding and unique if you do though. Any suggestions for a beginner?
I'm not a pro or anything, I just like to play around. All the times I've shot pics of lightning its either been night time or very close to it, so I just use a small aperture, put my digital camera on a tripod and point it where its been lightning, and start taking 30 or 60 second exposures. I probably wouldn't be able to do much of a job at it with a film camera, but with a digital its pretty easy to make sure you're getting the right exposure.
The color on that photo wasn't really the true color, I was using a colored filter at the time. You can probably play around and get the same effect using photoshop or something similar.
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Anonymous
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What ISO do you use? I tried using ISO50 and a real low aperature but they kept coming out way to bright. Was that just that particular flash that was too bright? At 10 sec, everything seemed way to overexposed. What kind of colored filter did you have? I am using a Digital camera. I'll have to play with the colors on photoshop sometime. Thanks!
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