Tks Thusie. I only have another 90 days of storms left to shoot. I found a new great spot to shoot from yesterday but its right out in the open on a hill :uhoh
It has a line of sight with an old white church steeple & massive cross in the path of the storms.
Tks Thusie. I only have another 90 days of storms left to shoot. I found a new great spot to shoot from yesterday but its right out in the open on a hill :uhoh
It has a line of sight with an old white church steeple & massive cross in the path of the storms.
Sounds ike a cool place to shoot, sort of:D Hopefully I'll figure out how to shoot storms by this spring/summer. The big 300 year old oak out front is the tallest structure in this vilage except for the water tower. Big transformer got blown to bits few years back, yowzer, but it was cool, being only about 60' from it wasn't.:oogle
neat Gus I like it. We had a whole 5 minutes of a storm at about 2 o'clock. I've never tried shooting it in daylight. There are alot of places to go around here for a view, but I haven't had the chance yet. A frend of mine from Glenn Innes an hour north of me has been living and breathing lightning shots for the last few months. Him and hs mate have shot some real beauties from up there.
Gus, you do COOL lightening shots.Your new place, as yet untried and perhaps deadly, it sounds ideal! Perhaps on another type day you could even work a "Peace" shot into it!ginger
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People here actually plan work around the storms doc. I saw one storm the other night where i was trying to count the strikes & i was getting sometimes 2 a second.
Nothing like sitting safely on a high balcony watching it waltz into town.
I went to his site & emailed him a question & never recieved a reply which is a small alarm bell for me anyway.
Santa was bringing me one for xmas however a lot of research showed that it will fire at the very instant of the strike giving an image of one bolt as in this daytime shot.
I am getting quite used to long exposures thus getting several strikes in the one shot which also show the leaders of the strikes...somthing that this 'switch' can't seem to do.
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This puzzles me, DI.
I presume you're only safe inside the depicted structures. The charge from a lightning strike will not just run down the mast, it will also travel through the adjoining ground.
I assume the diagrams are intended to show how much area is protected by lightning rods from lightning hits, and is not meant to imply that standing on the ground inside a "cone" is the smart thing to do.
I presume you're only safe inside the depicted structures. The charge from a lightning strike will not just run down the mast, it will also travel through the adjoining ground.
I assume the diagrams are intended to show how much area is protected by lightning rods from lightning hits, and is not meant to imply that standing on the ground inside a "cone" is the smart thing to do.
Waxy its all about potential difference....not one other thing but that.
It the exact same way i touch live wires without harm as do birds. We make sure that we are not creating a path with our bodys of potential difference. If you are standing on ground that is at 1 million volts (for example only) then that million volts needs another potential ..say from your head or hand to leave your body & go to. If there is nothing but air (good insulator) then it wont leave & thus cannot create a path to flow on. Hence the bird singing on the wire.
Now take one step away & one foot will remain at 1 million volts & the other is now on a spot on the ground that is 900 000 volts & thus your feet are now at a different potential allowing 100 000 volts to flow between them.
Rememer the 'glass half full or half empty' theory. Well look at it this way. Metal isnt a good conductor just simply a poor insulator & rubber isnt a good insulator..just a poor conductor. There are 1000's & 1000's of variables with the ground & electricity but moisture is the biggest. Imagine the moisture diff between desert sand to a swamp.
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It has a line of sight with an old white church steeple & massive cross in the path of the storms.
Sounds ike a cool place to shoot, sort of:D Hopefully I'll figure out how to shoot storms by this spring/summer. The big 300 year old oak out front is the tallest structure in this vilage except for the water tower. Big transformer got blown to bits few years back, yowzer, but it was cool, being only about 60' from it wasn't.:oogle
We better make the most of our last 90 days huh?
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One of the bolts that landed in that spot i was shooting actually hit a bloke..he's alive.
You could build one of those you know... bet you even have access to some, er, "spare" parts in your line of work.
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I went to his site & emailed him a question & never recieved a reply which is a small alarm bell for me anyway.
Santa was bringing me one for xmas however a lot of research showed that it will fire at the very instant of the strike giving an image of one bolt as in this daytime shot.
I am getting quite used to long exposures thus getting several strikes in the one shot which also show the leaders of the strikes...somthing that this 'switch' can't seem to do.
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This puzzles me, DI.
I presume you're only safe inside the depicted structures. The charge from a lightning strike will not just run down the mast, it will also travel through the adjoining ground.
I assume the diagrams are intended to show how much area is protected by lightning rods from lightning hits, and is not meant to imply that standing on the ground inside a "cone" is the smart thing to do.
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Waxy its all about potential difference....not one other thing but that.
It the exact same way i touch live wires without harm as do birds. We make sure that we are not creating a path with our bodys of potential difference. If you are standing on ground that is at 1 million volts (for example only) then that million volts needs another potential ..say from your head or hand to leave your body & go to. If there is nothing but air (good insulator) then it wont leave & thus cannot create a path to flow on. Hence the bird singing on the wire.
Now take one step away & one foot will remain at 1 million volts & the other is now on a spot on the ground that is 900 000 volts & thus your feet are now at a different potential allowing 100 000 volts to flow between them.
Rememer the 'glass half full or half empty' theory. Well look at it this way. Metal isnt a good conductor just simply a poor insulator & rubber isnt a good insulator..just a poor conductor. There are 1000's & 1000's of variables with the ground & electricity but moisture is the biggest. Imagine the moisture diff between desert sand to a swamp.