Lightning at night

pyry

I'm bored out of my skull right now, the weather hasn't been very nice and I'm kinda done sitting around.

So I'm posting old lightning shots as a quick fix :lol3

Best one from 2006:



This one topped out 2007. I shot this from a high roof top thinking "a hit there would kill me, hit over there and I need a hearing aid, way over it's gonna be a great shot..." The best hit was even further away...




And this one is the best I've got yet this summer. Shot using the very same camera as the previous two, but this time modified for IR. I've posted shot on it's own before, but I'll include it because it's cool



All are night time long exposures.

Awais Yaqub

Wow 1st one looks like from fantasy movie looks like Azlan will appear any time
Great

pyry

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Wow 1st one looks like from fantasy movie looks like Azlan will appear any time
Great

Thank you Awais
I'll have to admit to missing the reference, who's Azlan?

Awais Yaqub

pyry wrote:

Thank you Awais
I'll have to admit to missing the reference, who's Azlan?

Actually i am also not sure about name. He was a lion in "Chronicals of Narnia" and use to see the TV series when i was little kid.

Skippy

pyry wrote:

I'm bored out of my skull right now, the weather hasn't been very nice and I'm kinda done sitting around.

So I'm posting old lightning shots as a quick fix

Best one from 2006:

This one topped out 2007. I shot this from a high roof top thinking "a hit there would kill me, hit over there and I need a hearing aid, way over it's gonna be a great shot..." The best hit was even further away...


And this one is the best I've got yet this summer. Shot using the very same camera as the previous two, but this time modified for IR. I've posted shot on it's own before, but I'll include it because it's cool

All are night time long exposures.

I'm with Awais, I love the first one too Pyry
It looks very magical ... well done .... Skippy
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Tylwydd

All shots are very nice (first one colors are magical indeed)

THe second one though is quite interesting because shooting from this distance allowed you to capture what happend above the lightning : I can guess a higher flash between the upper clouds and that's quite interesting (scientific point of view)...

I've read something about still little known flashes far more powerfull than the earth/cloud lightnings that have been "discovered" lately... And your shooting conditions were almost perfect to observe those ones !

pyry

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Actually i am also not sure about name. He was a lion in "Chronicals of Narnia" and use to see the TV series when i was little kid.

I see now, the great lion is Aslan

I was confused because a search for "Azlan" came up with a sultan, a squash player and a large IT company

I should go to the library and pick those books up...

pyry

maximumawesome wrote:

Yeah, the 1st one is really nice.

Skippy wrote:

I'm with Awais, I love the first one too Pyry
It looks very magical ... well done .... Skippy

Thanks! The first seems to be the one to catch the imaginations of people and give 'em a wiggle

pyry

Tylwydd wrote:

All shots are very nice (first one colors are magical indeed)

THe second one though is quite interesting because shooting from this distance allowed you to capture what happend above the lightning : I can guess a higher flash between the upper clouds and that's quite interesting (scientific point of view)...

I've read something about still little known flashes far more powerfull than the earth/cloud lightnings that have been "discovered" lately... And your shooting conditions were almost perfect to observe those ones !

Thanks!

Are you referring to 'positive lightning', that strikes between the ground and the top of the cloud, with considerable energy?

I'm not sure Finnish weather can generate that much bang

I'll keep an eye out for those

DaddyO

Shot one pretty dang nice. Can't help you with bored .
Maybe you can come stand on my delete key while I take a break.

pyry

DaddyO wrote:

Shot one pretty dang nice. Can't help you with bored .
Maybe you can come stand on my delete key while I take a break.

Thanks

Sorry, can't help you with the deleting. The sun just showed up and I've gotta get out

Tylwydd

pyry wrote:

Thanks!

Are you referring to 'positive lightning', that strikes between the ground and the top of the cloud, with considerable energy?

I'm not sure Finnish weather can generate that much bang

I'll keep an eye out for those

No, I'm refferring to phenomenons known as sprites or blue jets... they happen in the upper atmoshpere above the cloud, and have been studied for about 20 years only. Your second shot was perfect to eventually see them cos you can see above the clouds as well... Ground/cloud lightnings (the usual ones) seem to be ridiculous compared to these new flashes...

OK I found the links that will explain it better than I can do in english ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning

http://www.spritesandjets.com/

pyry

Tylwydd wrote:

No, I'm refferring to phenomenons known as sprites or blue jets... they happen in the upper atmoshpere above the cloud, and have been studied for about 20 years only. Your second shot was perfect to eventually see them cos you can see above the clouds as well... Ground/cloud lightnings (the usual ones) seem to be ridiculous compared to these new flashes...

OK I found the links that will explain it better than I can do in english ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning

http://www.spritesandjets.com/

Actually, the thunder cloud extends all the to the top of the image there. That cell was 10-20 kilometers away, bit close to see what's going on above it for the sprites - I think. (if they really do go up to 75(!) km above the cloud I might have seen one if they were there)

And it takes a positive lightning strike to trigger a sprite making them rather rare. Still, they are something to look for

I remember a friend telling me I should try to catch a sprite when I mentioned I was going to modify my old camera for IR. One day...

summerz

Well done. Mine never come out well probably something to do with I'm taking them whilst hiding under a table or the likes lol.
But I do like watching them from afar...like another state.

pyry

summerz wrote:

Well done. Mine never come out well probably something to do with I'm taking them whilst hiding under a table or the likes lol.
But I do like watching them from afar...like another state.

Thank you

If you're too much of a scaredy-cat to stand in/next to a storm yourself (and I can understand why), make the camera do it for you:

Put the camera up on a tripod, put a rain cover on it, jam a remote shutter release in the very on position and then hide under the table. Easy as pie

summerz

pyry wrote:

Thank you

If you're too much of a scaredy-cat to stand in/next to a storm yourself (and I can understand why), make the camera do it for you:

Put the camera up on a tripod, put a rain cover on it, jam a remote shutter release in the very on position and then hide under the table. Easy as pie

Good idea..Lord knows I have had enough storms here in the northeast to experiment with lately.