lightening

A few shots from last night, lots of noise had a lot of extra lights around that interfered a lot.

http://www.briceharris.net/random/P1016113-01_r.jpg

http://www.briceharris.net/random/P1016115-01_r.jpg


And yes I suck at spelling, I got up at 5:30, which is way to early to be doing anything but dawn patrol or hunting. It seems to have affected my ability to spell.

http://digital-photography-school.co...ule-of-thirds/

It will help - there's waaaay too much "nothing" in the top of the pictures. You can crop them in Post using the rule as well as well.

I agree, and the reason I didn't was that any more cropping and that image will get noisy as hell, also a lot of detail is lost at the size they are. But thanks for the tip!

Have you tried playing with the levels? That might help the colors to "pop" a little more, and might make the activity in the top of the photos more obvious.

Neat pics otherwise though. I've never taken lightning shots - I'll have to try it sometime.

I did, and I got them as good as possible without getting too much noise. I had a giant car lot just below the frame, which had 100 flood lamps illuminating it, it was casting a lot of light into the air and really jacking with the shots. It was a lot of fun, though in hindsight, standing on the roof to shoot lightning may not be the smartest thing to do.

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Originally Posted by brice618

I did, and I got them as good as possible without getting too much noise. I had a giant car lot just below the frame, which had 100 flood lamps illuminating it, it was casting a lot of light into the air and really jacking with the shots. It was a lot of fun, though in hindsight, standing on the roof to shoot lightning may not be the smartest thing to do.

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Its probably not quite as dangerous as it seem. Can be scary, but I would guess its more likely going to hit a street light than you. Personally, I love going out to shoot storms. Most recent chance was a few weeks ago at 2 AM. Got some killer shots from it but, like you, at the time I was wondering if it was smart to be standing (in my case) on Green Mountain (has no trees) during a severe storm.


Just because... the one strike that really had me think for a second. Shot at 10mm

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6...02smallny0.jpg

Here's the lightening photo thread from a little while back, which includes a few tips, looks like Midget nuked his pics from the thread though unfortunately.

http://tetongravity.com/forums/showt...ght=lightening