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| Major lightning storm!!!; ...pictures coming | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 3 2006, 03:31 PM (306 Views) | |
| The 89th Key | Apr 3 2006, 03:31 PM Post #1 |
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Ok, I tried to take a picture of a lightning bolt. An exercise in futility you might say. Well I think I got lucky... (downloading them right now) |
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| George K | Apr 3 2006, 03:33 PM Post #2 |
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Finally
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OK, Sparky, we're waitin... |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 3 2006, 03:44 PM Post #3 |
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Well I KNOW I got one or two....but now I need to go search the 100 pictures I took for the ones that caught lightning. It better show up!!!!!
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| The 89th Key | Apr 3 2006, 03:49 PM Post #4 |
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![]() No dice. I guarantee I caught a couple nice bolts, but I had it on night vision (AKA, it captures for about 2 seconds to get all the light), and I caught a couple bolts, but they aren't showing up. This is bullsh1t.
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| Optimistic | Apr 3 2006, 03:51 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Lost awesome pictures are the pitts
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| apple | Apr 3 2006, 03:59 PM Post #6 |
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one of the angels
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sparky - heh |
| it behooves me to behold | |
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| Rick Zimmer | Apr 3 2006, 05:47 PM Post #7 |
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Fulla-Carp
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And how big did you say that trout was that you caught? :rolleyes: |
| [size=4]Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul -- Benedict XVI[/size] | |
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| LWpianistin | Apr 3 2006, 09:11 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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haha. it came by here at about 6pm, when my almost-sisters and i were at dinner. my roomie and i ran back to our room to close the windows because my piano is right in front of the windows. we then ran back outside and walked to the music building in bare feet, with our jeans rolled up, and just stood in the storm, getting SOAKING wet. it was so much fun! |
| And how are you today? | |
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| pianojerome | Apr 3 2006, 09:27 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Girls are weird.
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| phykell | Apr 4 2006, 12:25 AM Post #10 |
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Senior Carp
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Not the owls again... ![]()
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. - Ghandhi Evil cannot be conquered in the world. It can only be resisted within oneself. Remember, bones heal and chicks dig scars | |
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| LWpianistin | Apr 4 2006, 03:47 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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haha. no, i'm pretty sure the problem is that tracy and i are weird
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| apple | Apr 4 2006, 05:44 AM Post #12 |
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one of the angels
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so - where's the pics? |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 4 2006, 05:51 AM Post #13 |
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I took about 100...a couple that had lightning, but the lightning didn't show up. I dunno...maybe I needed the camera on a different setting?
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| Mark | Apr 4 2006, 06:29 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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you probably just missed the lightning. It happens really fast. You have to set the camera on a tripod put the shutter speed stting on "B" or Bulb. Using a shutter release cable you lock the shutter open. After a lightning strike, you close the shutter. Experiment with different aperture settings. If you want the background to show up open the aperture. If it appears washed out close it down a step until you get the result you are looking for. |
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| big al | Apr 4 2006, 06:50 AM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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I hope you weren't doing this in a thunderstorm. Being struck by lightning has a certain way of putting an end to fun. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 4 2006, 06:51 AM Post #16 |
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As much as I love taking pictures, I really don't know much about it. What I did last night was put it on no flash and/or night setting. From the sound of the camera, it sounded like the exposure lasted 2 seconds. So, let's say I took a picture, I heard the shutter open, after a second, a lightning bolt flashed, and AFTER the bolt, I heard the shutter close. I thought I caught a few lightning bolts that way...but when the picture came out, there was nothing there....was I wrong? Am I using the wrong terminology? I'd really like to get into photography. ![]() PS. Fujifilm released a 9-mp camera for about 400 bucks: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072801fuji_e900.asp |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 4 2006, 06:52 AM Post #17 |
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I bet it does, but so far so good. Actually, in college...we had this big thunderstorm at night, and Aqua and I went out to the basketball court and lied down in the middle and watched the lightning strike all around. THAT will wake you up.
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| Mark | Apr 4 2006, 08:11 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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89th, check out this link. http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa072103b.htm |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| JBryan | Apr 4 2006, 08:15 AM Post #19 |
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I am the grey one
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It was just too dark out. Should have used your flash. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| tcmod | Apr 4 2006, 08:18 AM Post #20 |
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Senior Carp
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you guys are so romantic!!
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| Dead girls don't say no, but you still have to buy them flowers | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 4 2006, 09:15 AM Post #21 |
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I was wondering why Aqua kept insisting I wear a white t-shirt... |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 4 2006, 09:19 AM Post #22 |
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Mark, thanks...good article! |
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| ***musical princess*** | Apr 4 2006, 09:52 AM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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