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Aug 8, 2012, 9:38:37 PM
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:iconcraigletourneau:
Very rare that Vancouver Island gets storms...no less, forked lightning...glad I got out and fired away...got only a handful of images, but this one turned out the sharpest with the most detail...
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~PurpleSlippers Sep 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Is this the Nanaimo Harbour??? I used to live about 10 mins drive from there Awesome shot! :squee:
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~medusastoneeyes Aug 31, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
i love storms. when i was little i wanted to be a storm chaser and take pictures like that for hobby. nature has too many wonders :)
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*craigletourneau Sep 7, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Yah, love the storm chasing idea too, but unfortunately I live on the west coast of canada and with our temperate climate we rarely get these occurrences :( But yes, totally agree, love the outdoors and nature! :)
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*mrmd53 Aug 10, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Terrific Capture!
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~veinne Aug 10, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I always love lightning shots. c:
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~Wintella Aug 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's scary and gorgeous :) It looks like some light is coming from above the clouds, shine trough them around the lightning.
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*The-Lost-Hope Aug 8, 2012  Student General Artist
Nice catch!
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Mood: Wow! ~Pandagirl1029 Aug 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This is exquisite!
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Mood: Wow! ~Traditionalfire Aug 8, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
How do you take these kinds of pictures? Lighting only appears for about a split second.
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*craigletourneau Aug 8, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
All done with long exposure...this one was only 8 seconds long....but expose for the general scene lighting that you want...I wanted mine moody and past sunset, so had a quicker long exposure to keep the sky dark...then you just keep shooting over and over again and hope for the best...when the lightning strikes it imprints on the exposure since it is so bright...but earlier in the exposure I find gets a better result. There might be other ways to to do it, but this has worked for me. I typically shoot at f22 so I don't have to worry about focus point, but last night I didn't have a cable release for longer exposures over 30 seconds...so I had to use a lower fstop (f4) to keep my exposure under the 10 seconds...so I had to get lucky with my focus...i was lucky enough to have some lights on the dock for reference and manually focused...was the ideal way to take the pic, but its all I had to work with :D And of course you have to taking these with your tripod steady :)
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