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 04/03/2006 11:52:59 PM · #1
...Photos!!!!! All my life I wanted to catch lightning in action. Tonight over the Chesapeake Bay was the most awsome display of lightning I've seen in a long time. I had both cameras going, one @ 30sec and the other @ 60sec. Had to share some of them. They are straight from the camera so....and after an attempt on the deck..it was safer to take these from inside thru a rain spotted window.!! :O)




04/03/2006 11:56:26 PM · #2
Fantastic! Something I've always wanted to try too.
They are AWESOME!!

sp

Message edited by author 2006-04-03 23:56:47.
 04/03/2006 11:56:36 PM · #3
Great shots, Cindy! These are lovely!
 04/03/2006 11:59:12 PM · #4
Thanks Cindy & Marjo. I was SO excited to catch these...maybe not the best in the world but I am learning so much about m camera. It kept me away from that @#$% update button for a while!!
 04/04/2006 12:20:48 AM · #5
Great shots! I left comments.
 04/04/2006 03:56:15 AM · #6
All look great. I hope you don't mind but I want to try some edit on this one. I really shows how far a lightening bolt can travel.

04/04/2006 04:11:20 AM · #7
Very cool pics!
The first and third are impressive! (heck, they all are)
 04/04/2006 04:30:42 AM · #8
wow, cindy, those ROCK!
 04/04/2006 06:13:42 AM · #9
Thanks guys. It was just too cool doing this. But how in the world can you focus in the pitch black dark??

Southern...I have another shot that you would love to play with!!
 04/04/2006 06:21:52 AM · #10
Set your lens to MF, then adjust the focus to infinity on your focusing ring. If you don't have a focusing ring, just turn the focus in a bright lit area as if your trying to focus on something very far away.
 04/04/2006 06:23:44 AM · #11
Originally posted by MyeReadBik:
Set your lens to MF, then adjust the focus to infinity on your focusing ring. If you don't have a focusing ring, just turn the focus in a bright lit area as if your trying to focus on something very far away.


oooohhhhhh. I did just turn it as far as it would go and hoped for the best. Thanks
04/04/2006 08:15:06 AM · #12
I am totally envious. While driving to KY friday night I had the pleasure of watching lighting light up the night sky and although I stopped 3 different times I did not get a good shot...could be the fact that the wind was blowing like crazy and shaking everything around. When I finally got to where the storm was (Louisville) the lightning let up and was too random to get a shot of it. Then Sunday night back here in Chicago I stopped to try and get some with the Sears tower in it since the tower has it's yellow lights on up top (not sure why)...again no such luck.

Great images and good job.

Message edited by author 2006-04-04 08:22:56.
 04/04/2006 08:46:37 PM · #13
I'm in Virginia and we had that storm come right over our heads. I took what I *hope* are some interesting pictures of the clouds that were swirling and tumbling about, but I didn't get any lightning.

I'm hoping to get them off the camera and posted (they'll be my first posted here) tomorrow.
 04/04/2006 08:50:08 PM · #14


It's kind of a rush when ya get a good one!
 04/04/2006 08:58:18 PM · #15
Originally posted by TooCool:


It's kind of a rush when ya get a good one!

Nothing like it. I am a addict of the show 24, and had to turn it off and cut all the lites to get these. "Rush" is definitely the word for it. Awesome one you show here!!

Message edited by author 2006-04-04 20:58:34.
 04/04/2006 09:36:16 PM · #16
Go Flipper Girl! Those are great!
 04/05/2006 07:16:43 AM · #17
Something else those Cindi.
Glad you got your moment you had been waiting for, and
thanks for sharing it with us.

Cheers.

Joe
 04/05/2006 07:41:59 AM · #18
Nice shots, I have yet to get a lightning shot myself, but am still hoping.

Hey, cut the chord on that EVOLT and concentrate on learning the Rebel.

04/07/2006 11:14:41 AM · #19
Originally posted by ShadowBox:
I'm in Virginia and we had that storm come right over our heads. I took what I *hope* are some interesting pictures of the clouds that were swirling and tumbling about, but I didn't get any lightning.

I'm hoping to get them off the camera and posted (they'll be my first posted here) tomorrow.


Arg...as I'm still in the process of learning (aren't we all), I made a wonderful mistake. I'd been playing with the settings on my D70 earlier in the week, and had changed ISO Assist to ON.

Yup...everyone of the photos I took of that marvelous storm were all taken at ISO 1600. Which are just noisy as hell. Quite disappointing. :(
 04/07/2006 11:22:53 AM · #20
Cindy, I'm jealous - nice shots!

We moved to Seattle 4 years ago, and in all that time I've seen lightning only twice, and even that was faint and in the distance. For some reason, Seattle doesn't seem to "do" proper lightning :-(

Back in Brisbane (Oz), we had 4-7 good afternoon storms a week during summer, and I'm starting to miss them.
 04/07/2006 11:37:27 AM · #21
It was quite a storm. I was on the phone when it moved in, so I did not see it coming. I was able to take this pic before it completely was over us. I couldn't stay outside and take lightning pics... It moved so fast, I did not have time to switch to a wider angle lens. :-(


04/07/2006 11:41:29 AM · #22
Originally posted by Beetle:
Cindy, I'm jealous - nice shots!

We moved to Seattle 4 years ago, and in all that time I've seen lightning only twice, and even that was faint and in the distance. For some reason, Seattle doesn't seem to "do" proper lightning :-(


This was taken in Seattle (or Redmond).


That's part of what makes it special to me because I agree, you get maybe one lightning storm a year if you are lucky.
 04/07/2006 11:59:03 AM · #23
lightin is...so fast!
how do you get these shots?
 04/07/2006 12:24:59 PM · #24
Originally posted by Elmakias:
lightin is...so fast!
how do you get these shots?


You leave the shutter open and let the lighting come to you...
 04/13/2006 11:24:42 AM · #25
I have been wanting to get some of these shot for a long time........and everytime a storm comes it poops out before it gets to us......
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