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Fovea

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Wed Jun-17-09 01:13 PM
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Another boring lightning shot.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameraobscura/3633519231

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ManiacJoe

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Wed Jun-17-09 05:21 PM
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1. Nice.

Do you use the gizmos that trigger the pic on the lightning flash, or do you just press the shutter release hoping to get lucky?

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Fovea

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:20 PM
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3. Just a manual (electric) cable release

and a fairly heavy tripod.
Manual exposure with a sigma 10-20mm F4 ex zoom.

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Tindalos

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:18 PM
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2. I'm so disappointed

I clicked on this expecting something boring, and all I got was this cool dynamic picture. You're going to have to try much harder if you want to bore me ;)

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Fovea

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:25 PM
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4. Slightly less boring shot.

Edited on Wed Jun-17-09 09:26 PM by Fovea

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameraobscura/3605675177

From last week.
I guess the weather in tornado alley rarely bores.

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Tindalos

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Thu Jun-18-09 09:05 PM
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7. Cool!

How often do you get storms like that? One place I lived, we got lightning storms almost every night but we rarely get them here. I miss the light show, but not the fires.

Hope you have a lightning rod taller than you and your tripod.

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Fovea

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Fri Jun-19-09 03:19 AM
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8. From April to June

I'd say we average twice a week with lightning.

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Mira

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:27 PM
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5. Great great shots. I'm so impressed with your ability to catch them. But,

just how do you keep making that lightning happen?

;-)

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Fovea

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:34 PM
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6. Terry Pratchett's surefire (as it were) technique.

You stand out in a thunderstorm with one foot in a copper cauldron full of salt water and yell "The storm god is a wuss."

And if you are a photographer, one hand is attached to a metal tripod with an expensive camera by a cable release.

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Mari333

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Wed Jul-01-09 05:46 PM
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9. Gentle Crossing, Fovea.

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elleng

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Thu Jul-02-09 07:07 AM
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12. Amen

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Tindalos

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Thu Jul-02-09 01:38 AM
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10. Never boring

Ride the lightning, Fovea.

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Celebration

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Thu Jul-02-09 07:00 AM
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11. kicking this

right up to the top!!

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