Storm bearing down......
Jun 18, 2017 14:23:22 #
......on our farm last night. While watching TV my wife noticed lots of lightning approaching from the west. I put the 20mm 1.8 on the trusty D800, grabbed the tripod and did my best. Don't pixel peep or you will find out my focus wasn't perfect. Since the storm caught us by surprise I hadn't pre-focused at infinity during daylight. All I could do was set focus manually, take a shot and zoom in after to see the result. Most shots were at ISO 400-640, f 2.8-4 and 4 to 10 second exposure time.
My effort was literally a "shot in the dark." Pun intended. Although the long exposures and almost continuous lightning lit the scene well, it was quite dark. One of my first shots was photo-bombed by a truck going down the road. Its bright clearance lights caused the yellow and red streaks and his headlights "painted" our farmstead.
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My effort was literally a "shot in the dark." Pun intended. Although the long exposures and almost continuous lightning lit the scene well, it was quite dark. One of my first shots was photo-bombed by a truck going down the road. Its bright clearance lights caused the yellow and red streaks and his headlights "painted" our farmstead.
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Light painting courtesy of Mother Nature and a passing truck
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Almost contiuous cloud-to-cloud lightning turned night to day on long exposure. I suppose the fireflies over the corn field helped too.
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A bolt of lightning illuminates the ominous storm cloud over the farmstead. I went inside after this.
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Jun 18, 2017 15:03:51 #
Jun 18, 2017 15:36:03 #
Beautiful shots,
With all the bluster I see in your photos did anything of that magnitude show up?
With all the bluster I see in your photos did anything of that magnitude show up?
Jun 18, 2017 15:44:07 #
tramsey wrote:
Beautiful shots,
With all the bluster I see in your photos did anything of that magnitude show up?
With all the bluster I see in your photos did anything of that magnitude show up?
We had about an inch of rain and as I sometimes say "3 inches of wind." No damage right here but a few miles away one of my corn fields had some wind damage. It was "root lodged" but no broken stalks. Amazingly, as it continues to grow it will straighten back up but leave an "elbow" just above ground level. I'll have to drive slower at harvest to get it all.
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Jun 19, 2017 09:26:45 #
great job, hard conditions to be shooting in
glad your damage wasn't any worse
glad your damage wasn't any worse
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