Comments on: Lightning cracks down

By: pelf

pelf — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:14:52 +0000

WOW! I have never successfully captured a lightning, but yours turned up very well! :D
Congrats!

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:44:23 +0000

Cool, likes like I’m going to have to get me a Digital SLR to apply some of those settings. Thanks mate.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:39:39 +0000

Haha, yeah it was. I thought it was at digital photography school, but I can't find it there.Well, the gist of it was,

You need a tripod
Mid-sized aperture— lightning is bright!
Put your shutter on something like 10, 20, 30 seconds, or on bulb and you can just hold it for a while and see if any lightning comes
Keep taking photos until it cracks across your view

That's what I did. You can also check out what Mat did in the very same storm.

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:07:02 +0000

Was it an on-line article, if it was who do I have to spam to get the link? ;)

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:58:11 +0000

Yeah, the weather has been all over the shop in NSW, but I hadn’t had an opportunity like that one for about a year. Thankfully since then I had read an article about how to get lightning shots.

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:53:35 +0000

I’ve been dying to get some lightning shots but as of yet haven’t been caught in a storm. Too damn dry in SA at the moment.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:14:58 +0000

Cheers Sire. Ooh yeah, the thunder was pretty huge. Rather exciting actually. Thankfully the wind wasn’t blowing my way so I didn’t get wet (more importantly my camera didn’t get wet, or maybe a couple of harmless drops).

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:06:13 +0000

Top Shot Kristarella. Must have given of a helluva thunderclap?

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:01:14 +0000

Cheers Mat! Yeah, I was happy to come away with this one!

Meh, hard to tell looking at the orig and the processed where it comes from. I didn’t do much at all, 0.05 contrast and 1.0 definition and bit of levels. Reducing definition might remove it a bit, not sure. It was distracting me was all. :P

By: Mat Packer

Mat Packer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:18:04 +0000

My guess would be that the halo-ing is from processing, you’d have to tell us how you processed it, and compare it to the pre-processed image to know for sure.

Cracker of a shot though, so much detail in all the little cracks of lightning off the sides. If I shot this, pfft I wouldn’t care about the halos, it’s just such a one in a million shot anyway.