Sprite?
Aug 25, 2016 09:56:10 #
Hello all , Ive been away for while and am just getting back out doing some shooting .
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Aug 25, 2016 10:21:15 #
Aug 25, 2016 11:19:56 #
Outstanding. I have just began trying to get storm shots and now I have to really work on it. NICE!
Aug 25, 2016 11:42:43 #
gekko11 wrote:
Hello all , Ive been away for while and am just getting back out doing some shooting .
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Very beautiful shot Steve.
Craig
Aug 25, 2016 15:23:58 #
I like it!
What were your settings when you shot this?
Were you doing a timed exposure?
Being from a long electrical career, I have my experiences and beliefs about electricity and current flow.
For example, popular belief is that Lightening fires from the ground up.
I still believe it fires down to the ground, when it reaches the ground.
Electrical theory claims electrons flow from negative to positive.
I, and P&H, believe it flows from Positive to Negative. And guess what, electrical symbols like diodes, bear that out.
Either way, we have a better chance at getting hit by lightening, than winning the Lottery.
So is it Sprite? Or is it one of the "S's" in SS?
What were your settings when you shot this?
Were you doing a timed exposure?
Being from a long electrical career, I have my experiences and beliefs about electricity and current flow.
For example, popular belief is that Lightening fires from the ground up.
I still believe it fires down to the ground, when it reaches the ground.
Electrical theory claims electrons flow from negative to positive.
I, and P&H, believe it flows from Positive to Negative. And guess what, electrical symbols like diodes, bear that out.
Either way, we have a better chance at getting hit by lightening, than winning the Lottery.
So is it Sprite? Or is it one of the "S's" in SS?
Aug 25, 2016 17:45:21 #
SonnyE wrote:
I like it! br br What were your settings when you... (show quote)
Not my favorite symbol.
In the EXIF info it says he used Canon camera with a 70-200mm lens @ 70mm, 10 sec, f/2.8, ISO 800.
Craig
Aug 25, 2016 17:46:11 #
SonnyE wrote:
I like it! br br What were your settings when you... (show quote)
Sorry for the double tap.
Craig
Aug 25, 2016 20:43:37 #
gekko11 wrote:
Hello all , Ive been away for while and am just getting back out doing some shooting .
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Shooting a thunderstorm the other night and I think the lightning bolt looks like a sprite, with some bluish tendrils going upward ( or down) I don't know
Steve
Excuse me, but did you mean a "sprout"?
A sprite is a lemon-lime soft drink or a tiny type of fairy (ala Tinker Bell). A sprout is a young plant just coming out of the ground.
Aug 25, 2016 22:20:10 #
robertjerl wrote:
Excuse me, but did you mean a "sprout"?
A sprite is a lemon-lime soft drink or a tiny type of fairy (ala Tinker Bell). A sprout is a young plant just coming out of the ground.
A sprite is a lemon-lime soft drink or a tiny type of fairy (ala Tinker Bell). A sprout is a young plant just coming out of the ground.
Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. So these might not qualify.
But they are very neat.
Great shot.
Aug 25, 2016 23:10:06 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. So these might not qualify.
But they are very neat.
Great shot.
But they are very neat.
Great shot.
Ah, subject specific, limited use vocabulary. I don't speak lightening.
Aug 26, 2016 07:36:35 #
I'm leaning to the side that it does not qualify as what is defined as a sprite or even a jet, but either way, a quite outstanding image.
Well done,
Matthew
Well done,
Matthew
Aug 26, 2016 10:17:33 #
Aug 26, 2016 10:20:17 #
GMTCM wrote:
Outstanding. I have just began trying to get storm shots and now I have to really work on it. NICE!
Thanks GMTCM , storm shots can be a lot of fun
Aug 26, 2016 10:21:24 #
CraigFair wrote:
Very beautiful shot Steve.
Craig
Craig
Kind words Craig ,, Thankyou
Aug 26, 2016 10:44:40 #
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