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Lightning photos

  • 19-07-2010 12:10pm
    #1
    Tallon
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    Just stumbled on this, unbelievable!

    I want to take these kind of photos especially with the lovely weather we're having lately. Doesn't look to hard, take a good few shots and layer them in my new CS5 :)

    http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/atmospheric/20100628Thunders.htm

    20100628Thunders.jpg
    This is a photo sequence of 42 stacked shots, caught in Olympic Stadium, Athens during a severe thunderstorm. It only took me aproximatelly 30 minutes to capture 51 thunders.
    Nine shots were destroyed because of the brightness of the thunders. See also the waterdrops from the drain pipe. They seem 'still' as they instlantly illuminated from the lightnings.

    The answer to the crucial question: No... The big thunder didn't hit me on the head! It stroke a few hundred feet in front of me..

    Canon EOS 550D, 28/6/2010 1:16 - 1:48, Shutter Speed 3.2 sec x 42 shots, Aperture Value 4.0, ISO 100, Lens Canon EF 15mm f/2.8, Focal Length 15.0 mm

    Anyone any tips / ideas? especially for not getting my gear wet wet wet


Comments

  • #2
    Mycroft H
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    Ya can't see thunder :P

    Thats lightning :D

    Excellent link Btw


  • #3
    Sleepy
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    From the angle of the shot, it looks like the camera was set up underneath a similar structure to the one on the right where the ground is clearly dry...

    Hardest bit of getting a shot like this would seem to be finding the location and being there during a storm.


  • #4
    sNarah
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    landyman wrote: »
    Ya can't see thunder :P

    Thats lightning :D

    Excellent link Btw

    Haha I was going to say that too, aren't we just the right smart-arses :rolleyes:

    Cool though, the amounts of time I've have tried, rather unsuccesfully to capture lightning... Very hard!


  • #5
    Brndn
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    Wow, love it. Thanks for that! Would love to try that. :D


  • #6
    Hearvee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Hearvee


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    1869701396_a69ab2e29b.jpg

    Managed to get a few shots of lightning from my hotel window in Mozambique a couple of years ago. Wasn't really expecting the storm, and it was at about 3am iirc, so wasn't going to go looking for a better view (down on the beach at 3am would've been dodgy anyhow, but with a tripod and an umbrella in a thunderstorm???).

    I setup with the camera on tripod on the balcony, but moved back inside when the storm got closer. Taking single shots didn't really work, as I couldn't exactly time the lightning strikes.

    I think I ended up setting a 30-sec exposure, then using a piece of card to cover the lens for about 20 of those 30secs to try and catch a couple of bolts in one shot. I counted the seconds between the lightning bolts/thunderclaps to estimate roughly when the next one would be.

    And having a few stationary buildings in shot would've been good, the trees were blowing all over the place so came out a bit blurred.


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