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Lightning pic - First one

Postby Greg S on Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:01 am

This pic was captured last night, I was both inspired and informed by the posts on this forum to attempt this shot.
Thank you all for sharing you wisdom.
All tips, comments, etc welcome.

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Postby Oneputt on Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:08 am

Nice one Greg :D It really isn't all that difficult is it? That's the advantage of digital, just keep shooting. Yours is a little sharper than my best effort though.
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Postby JordanP on Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:56 am

Excellent shot Greg! Well done. Looks like you were using your tripod and the strike was pretty close.

Nice capture.
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Postby MHD on Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:16 am

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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:54 am

Awesome, there is something really exciting and fascinating about lightning photography, well done.
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Postby gecko on Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:06 pm

Very nice!
I like the colours & clouds

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Postby tsanglabs on Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:53 pm

Very nice shot.

The first time I was trying to capture lightning after taking the shot the camera would take ages to store the image, resulting in me missing some shots. I evetually realised that I had noise reduction on which caused the huge delay. So just tip for those with noise reduction on. I always have mine off now.
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Postby Catcha on Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:09 pm

Nice shot well caputred Greg :D
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Postby drifter on Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:43 pm

Great shot Greg .
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Postby Greg S on Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:25 am

Thank you all for your kind comments.
I feel that photographing storms could be quite addictive :)

Oneputt, your dead right about the advantage of digital, just keep shooting. I could not have justified 3 rolls of 35mm for one or two keepers.

JordanP, some of the strikes were quite close thankfully I was able to shoot from indoors.

tsanglabs, thanks for the noise reduction tip.

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