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July 25 Lightning
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:02 pm
by NWIASpotter
Some intense lightning around me last night! From 11 til' 5 am almost solid lightning in the skies!! Here are some pics:
Complete album:
http://photobucket.com/albums/v319/NWIA ... 0Lightning
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:04 pm
by NWIASpotter
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:56 pm
by iluvseashore
nice pics!
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:17 am
by TazzyD
Beautiful photos! I love to look at lightening vicariously. IRL, it scares the woo woo out of me and my little dog, too.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:03 am
by ict1523
Beautiful.
Taking lightning photos here is nearly impossible as we rarely get nice lightning, and lightning during storms themselves doens't occur too often.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:10 am
by angelwing
Awesome!
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:20 am
by CaptinCrunch
Beautiful photos of the Awesome power of lightning!!
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:51 pm
by Hurricaneman
Cool pix
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:40 pm
by NWIASpotter
Thanks guys! I believe I'm getting better at taking pictures, especially of lightning... Appreciate the good words...
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:55 pm
by beachbum_al
Those are awesome pictures but they scare the ebbbies out of me.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:33 am
by Hurricaneman
How do you get lightning like that
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:39 am
by NWIASpotter
I use a digital camera, although it seems that a lot of people like to use actual camcorders. Camcorders mean you have to go frame by frame and take it out to get the image, usually it comes out fuzzy and completely out of focus. That is why I don't like people who do that, lol... It is kind of a way as cheating becuase there is no way you can miss it.
I have a manual setting which is what I use on my camera, you can adjust exposure times and a couple other features that help for clarity and brightness... With these, the solid strikes only occured about once or twice every minute. So I went with a 30 second exposure and captured most of these. The picture with 4 CG strikes in it I was using 15 sec exposure becuase the lightning was much more frequent.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:43 am
by NWIASpotter
I would also like to note that I did not do any adjustments with my computer on these pictures. Completely original.....
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:14 am
by EDR1222
Great pics!
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:25 pm
by pawlee
jayson, these pics are excellent! i can appreciate the difficulty it is to capture lightning pics and especially those bearing clarity and good composition. very well done!
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:43 pm
by NWIASpotter
Thanks Pawlee! I was able to get this image ealier this morning with a storm that rolled through:
Sun was already rising so it was light out and these strikes were very weak. But, I was amazed that they were so wild, all over the place.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:32 pm
by aepp
WOW! GREAT PICS!
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:44 am
by NWIASpotter
Thanks aaep... Glad to see ya joined J2 as well.
Hope ya like it!
