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Haircut
Haircut
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5 Nov 2009 11:14pm
Some pix as it's happening. I'll try to keep adding as I getem. Cameras are pointing at Logan

it's on it's way

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Leech
Leech
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5 Nov 2009 9:29pm
Awesome!
da vecta
da vecta
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5 Nov 2009 11:33pm
I think I heard the second one from Arundel!
greenleader
greenleader
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5 Nov 2009 11:42pm
that last one hit the neighbours dog and it's running round the yard with it's tail looking like a sparkler!!!
Haircut
Haircut
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6 Nov 2009 12:15am
still getting the odd one







i think it's over
doodah
doodah
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6 Nov 2009 5:12am
awesome pics hc
gcgrayza
gcgrayza
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6 Nov 2009 7:52am
Fantastic pics. Incredible amount of power in the last shot. And we humans think we can generate electricity efficiently. We got no idea in comparison to that. Thanks for capturing the moment HC.
Gestalt
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6 Nov 2009 7:54am
Richiefish
Richiefish
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6 Nov 2009 8:30am
cool !
trauma
trauma
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6 Nov 2009 9:48am
Nice!
Haircut
Haircut
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6 Nov 2009 9:53am
u r welcome. it's fun to try and get a good one. many of the big bolts ran right across the horizon instead of hitting ground. i've never really seen that before
Trav015
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6 Nov 2009 8:37am
awesome photos haircut can i ask what settings your were using to capture these amazing shots?
evlPanda
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6 Nov 2009 1:21pm
The colours are soooo NP 2009.

That's some pretty sweet noise reduction HC!!!
sausage
sausage
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6 Nov 2009 1:03pm
Trav015 said...

awesome photos haircut can i ask what settings your were using to capture these amazing shots?


I put my camera setting on that little lightning bolt logo but it never seems to work for me.

Haircut- they are some seriously good photos. you must have lightning reflexes.
Haircut
Haircut
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6 Nov 2009 2:30pm
evlPanda said...

The colours are soooo NP 2009.



they should turn pink in about 8 months


thanks again. yeah i'm using the lightning bolt mode too

it's about 15seconds open shutter at iso 160, and a lacky band holding a lego block against the shutter button on one camera and an intervalometer plugged into the other one. shot in raw so i can recover some of the overexposed bigger bolts of lightning. the rest is just manipulating the contrast / levels / curves etc in ya fave photo manipulation program. the pics look pretty bland straight out of the camera. it took about 100 photos to get 6 good ones
gregwed
gregwed
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6 Nov 2009 4:47pm
Love it!
Thanks Haircut. Was wondering how long your exposure was. I have tried before with limited results with lightning, you inspire me to try again and again until I get it.
Thanks again!
evlPanda
evlPanda
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6 Nov 2009 8:06pm
Haircut said...

evlPanda said...

The colours are soooo NP 2009.



they should turn pink in about 8 months



The I'll get some zinc to match!

Trav015
Trav015
WA
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6 Nov 2009 8:25pm
Cheers haircut will be sure to give these settings a try now that i have a camera that can be used to do stuff like that
MrSpaggiari
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7 Nov 2009 10:23am
jeez thats awesome
curac
curac
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7 Nov 2009 9:41am
That's one thing I miss about qld is the afternoon lightning storms
Haircut
Haircut
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17 Nov 2009 8:41pm
awesome lightning show right now. if ever you wanted to try photos, now's the time
Trav015
Trav015
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17 Nov 2009 7:51pm
Got camera out and tryed to capture some of the strikes managed to get two bolts from home looking out toward the city will try post them up. Want more storms now!
Haircut
Haircut
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17 Nov 2009 10:34pm
fun isn't it (providing its not us getting struck)

i got some more too, i stickem up shortly









swoosh
swoosh
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17 Nov 2009 11:37pm
third and fifth shots are amazing. nice work.

what causes the pinkish tinge?

CJW
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18 Nov 2009 12:51am
Gotta say dude, epic photos
greenleader
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18 Nov 2009 1:02am
it's the end of the world as we know it!
trauma
trauma
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18 Nov 2009 7:59am
OMG! 2012 already?
Haircut
Haircut
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18 Nov 2009 10:11am
swoosh said...


what causes the pinkish tinge?



i think it's just atmospheric conditions? i used to think it was the camera picking a different white balance, but the last few times I've used the same preset white balance setting in both cameras and still got different results between storms, but the shots from both cameras look identical
aus301
aus301
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18 Nov 2009 11:17am
I'm loving the colours HC.

Generally all my lightning shots end up with more blues.
Haircut
Haircut
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18 Nov 2009 7:26pm

i got so many, but i think that's about the best of them



bigstim179
bigstim179
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19 Nov 2009 9:16am
Those bolts would certainly make a DeLorean hit 88pmh
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