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Lightning Strikes

Daver2112Daver2112 Registered Users Posts: 157 Major grins
edited November 10, 2009 in Other Cool Shots
This is the only shot of lightning I've been able to capture.
Pretty sad considering I live in Florida the lightining capitol of the states.

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    Cygnus StudiosCygnus Studios Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2009
    Well you certainly picked a winner to shoot. I would personally crop some of the bottom off and darken it a bit, but you have a great shot.
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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,931 moderator
    edited April 1, 2009
    Cool shot. I like the alignment with the windows of the house. Makes me glad I wasn't in it at the time. thumb.gif
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    00SS00SS Registered Users Posts: 730 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2009
    Nice shot... clap.gif

    Couple questions if you do't mind? what WB were you using (incandesant ? it seems to pull more of the blues). And how at night do you get the focus right? i took 91 pics the other night and this was my best.. and it's not so good :cry

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    Daver2112Daver2112 Registered Users Posts: 157 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2009
    00SS wrote:
    Nice shot... clap.gif

    Couple questions if you do't mind? what WB were you using (incandesant ? it seems to pull more of the blues). And how at night do you get the focus right? i took 91 pics the other night and this was my best.. and it's not so good :cry

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    Well first I set the focus to infinity, and I had the WB on tungsten by mistake but as you see it worked out well. This was the last shot of that night, I caught it by pure luck.
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    00SS00SS Registered Users Posts: 730 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2009
    Thanks for the reply.. and again, awesome shot thumb.gif
    Devin
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    QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2009
    I haven't shot lightning but it would appear that you have to shoot with manual focus with hyperfocal dsitance (ie inifnity) so there is zero focus hunting. shoot in raw and ignore WB till afterwards.
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    SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2009
    Daver2112 wrote:
    This is the only shot of lightning I've been able to capture.
    Pretty sad considering I live in Florida the lightining capitol of the states.

    That would scare the daylights out of me to see a bolt that big hit the ground.... at the same time I would be in WOW mode rolleyes1.gif

    Very cool shot thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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    GliebsterGliebster Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins
    edited November 10, 2009
    Beautiful. I like the blue hue of this... purple is always nice, but blue somehow is more electrifying.
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