Yep... I stand there for hours and get rained on. Usually you photograph the storm as it approaches, so you see the lightshow before the rain arrives.My current camera only takes exposures 15 seconds - but my film cameras could stay hours for hours. You take HUNDREDS of photos and get a few keepers.It's part experience and a lot of luck - most of my best lightning photos are on film and not scanned - here is one that is handy - <a class="user" href="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r186/davecordigg/Lightning_0222a.jpg">http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r186/davecordigg/Lightning_0222a.jpg</a>I WISH I could get a shot from that close - I've been within a few hundred feet, but never with a camera... dammit.
Closed AccountMar 3, 2007
WAR OF THE WORLDS
davecorMar 3, 2007
Yep... I stand there for hours and get rained on. Usually you photograph the storm as it approaches, so you see the lightshow before the rain arrives.My current camera only takes exposures 15 seconds - but my film cameras could stay hours for hours. You take HUNDREDS of photos and get a few keepers.It's part experience and a lot of luck - most of my best lightning photos are on film and not scanned - here is one that is handy - <a class="user" href="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r186/davecordigg/Lightning_0222a.jpg">http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r186/davecordigg/Lightning_0222a.jpg</a>I WISH I could get a shot from that close - I've been within a few hundred feet, but never with a camera... dammit.
spatznickMar 3, 2007
I wish I saw the same picture just 5 seconds later, after the strike.
mercurysquadMar 3, 2007
A lightning bolt is perhaps as wide as your thumb (Re: Resnick/Halliday/Walker physics book). Exposure might exaggerate it though.
Closed AccountMar 3, 2007
FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cuoopsMar 3, 2007
heh, i submitted this 6hrs earlier...oh well
zjbirdMar 3, 2007
If this was real, are there photo's of the house afterwards?