A picture of lightning

8zil8zil Registered Users Posts: 63 Big grins
edited September 25, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
I did this the other night, please tell me what you think of it, and if you have a flickr, please comment on it:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/8zil/2871048221/
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  • rahmonsterrahmonster Registered Users Posts: 1,376 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2008
    Nice shot! Lightning is hard to do (I have done a lot of trying with no great resultsheadscratch.gif)

    If only the trees weren't blocking the rest of it! GAH to trees!:giggle
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2008
    8zil wrote:
    I did this the other night, please tell me what you think of it, and if you have a flickr, please comment on it:


    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8zil/2871048221/

    Hi 8zil, that is one very cool lightning bolt shot clap.gif
    too bad the trees block part of the view.

    Great capture, I never successful captured a decent lightning shot myself.
    Well done! ... Skippy :D
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  • 8zil8zil Registered Users Posts: 63 Big grins
    edited September 22, 2008
    Thanks for the comments guys, it was mostly luck, because well you never know where they or when they will hit!! about the palm trees, I too thought that is a shame that they block the bolt, but on the other hand, they also ad something to the composition, or at least I want to think so
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  • Dooginfif20Dooginfif20 Registered Users Posts: 845 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2008
    do you mind sharing how you were able to capture that?
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  • IPClarkIPClark Registered Users Posts: 2,355 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2008
    Dooginfif20 wrote:
    do you mind sharing how you were able to capture that?

    I'm imagining a medium length exposure, repeated and just a case of waiting for the strike.

    A beautiful shot. I kinda like the trees in the shot but agree it would have been even better if they had been elswhere in the frame or out of it. Still, a superb capture.
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  • JeroenJeroen Registered Users Posts: 447 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2008
    The top halve of it looks just like the cover photo of "Love over Gold" from the Dire Straits. Great lightning photo, although I'd crop off most of the trees.
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  • Michiel de BriederMichiel de Brieder Registered Users Posts: 864 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2008
    Blêgh!!!! It's so great I hate you for it mwink.gif

    I think the sharpness on the lightning is *superb*!
    *In my mind it IS real*
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2008
    Nice! thumb.gif

    You might consider getting rid of the distractions.

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  • Michiel de BriederMichiel de Brieder Registered Users Posts: 864 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2008
    I disagree with Ric here, I think the empty space lends power to the lightening. The crop Ric made is too 'full of it' IMO... Subjective as it is mwink.gif
    *In my mind it IS real*
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