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- RedHerringHack, on 10/10/2007, -8/+123To get these shots, you set the camera for several seconds exposure at low ISO on a tripod.
The lightning is so bright that it will punch through the ambient light gathered during that time,
so the houses will look normal, yet you will still get the lightning. You have a several second
window during which the lightning can strike and still get captured.
It's not like he has 'lightning' reflexes. ;-) - BlackTye, on 10/10/2007, -1/+72They forget to mention that 2 seconds later, the tree showed up in 1955.
Had something to do with a flux capacitor. - t1t0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+59Nope. It was a lucky shot, he says he took _many_ pictures to get this one.
From the EXIF : "Exposition: 0,004 sec (1/250)"
Not exactly a several second shot. - vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -3/+461477 x 1332 pixels: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1113986014&size=o
Now that's a stunning shot! Very impressive! - gregdogum, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28How in the world is one able to catch something like this? What perfect timing. Pretty amazing shot.
- elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23More like a shocking shot!
- georgetds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Yeah, my grandpa used to tell stories about the tree that showed up at his prom and played a song on its guitar. Said the tree kept looking at a picture or something.
- bflfab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1442
- diggless, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11http://www.lightningtrigger.com/
there is how you can do it consistently. - zolaar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9+1 for Johnny B. Wood
- logophage, on 10/10/2007, -0/+71.21 Gigawatts?
- themarq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I was going to say the same thing... but there still is a great deal of luck involved in getting a good lightening shot. As you said, there is only a several second window and it's not as if you know in advance (generally) where that lightening is going to hit in the next few seconds.
Very nice picture, with a nice bit of luck and skill. - greatcaffeine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I'd like to see you get a better picture.
- m4rk0551, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Seems to me your more impressed by Flickr than the image itself.
- repmekevets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4digg needs a photo section...
- JohanLieberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What are the odds of lightning hitting someone? 1 in millions.. what r the odds of taking a picture of lighting hitting a tree from your balcony (given that not everyone has a balcony)...anyone?
- cybe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I experienced the same thunderstorm which was quite impressive.
- smeagel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Man can produce the energy in lightning. An entire lightning storm has about as much energy as an atomic bomb, which while impressive, is much lower than man is able to produce.
- KillTheRhythm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wawaweewa*
- Professr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Um, lightning RODS are man-made. Lightning BOLTS are natural phenomena.
- jesstech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Because making fun of spelling on the Internet is sooo hip these days.
- iloveGod08, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Pretty sure the world record of 50 megatons of explosion is stronger than any lightning storm that ever occured.
- ScottDaMan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Very awesome photo!
- SmileyChris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The tree was going 88mph?!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3here's a four lightning bolt strike caught on camera: http://www.ratemyeverything.net/post/2887/Lightning.aspx
- mike81890, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I see what you did there.
- flatpick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Looks like you stole a frame from the 4400 pilot. Nice work.
- Cowfrommars, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hooray for double posts!
- Ufomies, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2We've had a lot of those nasty ones here in Finland lately. This guy was really lucky to catch a pic and not a lightning, but what a cool photo that is.
- telekinekris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The caption: "This one stroke just on the other side of the street. Quite a nice bang it had..."
Pervy lightning stroking on the street in plain view like that. - Musaffa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thats gotta be Jerry Bruckheimer's house.
- krunchy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lol zeus
- Cowfrommars, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, professional lightning photographers wait a long time to get great lightning shots, and not with long exposure time.
Although, this guy probably wasn't a professional, just saying. :P - Quakee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought he was using The Force...
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Who is 'noone', and why are they screaming?
- CiXeL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or easier, get a camera with decent video and take a clip and rip frames out. thats how i did this.
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=231225652&context=set-72157600014646781&size=o - KidVicious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He probably used a auto-shot function where you hold down the shutter and it takes rapid-fire pictures. He's still lucky to get the timing right.
- psygnisfive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That's usually how dead people act, yes. :P
- Charklii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not your fault. Digg comment system sucks.
- MatchStick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1IT CAN'T BE DONE!!! CAN'T!!!
- ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So the better idea would be to stop down the aperature to around 8+ F-stops, and then leave the shutter open.
- hulez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1looks like the tree is cumming
- AdamFromMyspace, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4oops, dupe. digg me down.
- Izzywizzy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://flickr.com/photo_exif.gne?id=1113986014
EXIF can be found here incase you couldnt find it. - Lanketer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I took this one night at about 2 am, I had the exposure set to 15 seconds and just waited for the lightning. This was the biggest bolt that night, I got pretty lucky. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/lanketer/workout012.jpg?t=1187304878
- cinder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hahah. Dugg up.
- CasinoJack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Darn, I misread that the first time as "Lightning hitting me".
- AdamFromMyspace, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that was the joke. >_
- psygnisfive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's also completely grammatical, since the noun "grammar" can be either a class noun like "milk", in which case it doesn't take the singular article, or an object noun like "cow", where it does take the singular article. However the latter is used to mean a set of rules for a language, which wouldn't make sense in this situation. Grammatical, but nonsensical. Watch out for colorless green ideas, ey?
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