Not a very good shot, but my first attempt at lightning.
Was taken this afternoon.
I'd worked out how to do nightime stuff, but the daytime stuff is more difficult.
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| Author: | Guy MIller [ Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:18 pm ] |
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Not a very good shot, but my first attempt at lightning. Was taken this afternoon. I'd worked out how to do nightime stuff, but the daytime stuff is more difficult.
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| Author: | chuckm [ Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:58 am ] |
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Yet another justification for my logging on to this web site every day  . This new thread certainly has possibilities.
There have been some spectacular lightning photos published over the years, and I have often wondered how much of it is really good luck and a superb sense of timing ... either that or leave the shutter open and hope for the best. Oh, I guess you can't do very long exposures in daylight. So what's the magic formula ... a really, really small f-stop? |
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| Author: | Guy MIller [ Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:46 pm ] |
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chuckm {L_WROTE}: This new thread certainly has possibilities......
.....leave the shutter open and hope for the best. Oh, I guess you can't do very long exposures in daylight. So what's the magic formula ... a really, really small f-stop? The F-stop for this was 32 & the shutter left open for 0.5sec & hope for the best Night time - set camera to "bulb" if you have it & keep the shutter open for as long as possible (without flooding) & hope for the best. f-stop between 4 to about 11 Tried for night time ones the other day during the big thunderstorm we had but all I got was wet - need to do it before the storm arrives or after it leaves - I think |
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:44 am ] | ||
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Biggest HK thunderstorm of the year so far last night, thousands of lightning strikes within 2 hours, according to the Observatory, quite a few of them hitting the Lamma Power Station. This is the only OK shot I got from my rooftop, out of over 270 photos. 1 second, -2.0 exposure setting). Who's got better lightning-over-Lamma photos (and tips on how to take better night-lightning photos), please? Here's a much better photo, 2 years ago, probably the best lightning photo in our long-running Lamma Photo of the Day gallery so far. Show us your best shots from last night! 
Lightning over YSW Harbour - Photo of the Day, Aug 2010, by Kevin
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| Author: | chuckm [ Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:03 am ] |
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Wow! Kevin's shot is spectacular. I missed that when it was originally posted. Thanks L-G. I still have not managed to get a lightning photo, but thunderstorms are quite rare around here. Maybe that has something to do with it. 
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:57 am ] |
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Not so rare around here. It's the next morning and the occasional lightning and rumbling is still going on. More thunderstorms in the next few days... Here is the data from the HK Observatory for "cloud to ground" and "cloud to cloud" strikes last night. Cloud-Ground strikes - Cloud-Cloud strikes: 16:00-16:59: 2286 - 890 17:00-17:59: 1529 - 284 18:00-18:59: 663 - 258 19:00-19:59: 237 - 111 |
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