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05-23-2014, 05:07 AM | #1 |
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May 23rd 2014: Lightning.
St. Catherine's Point lighthouse, Isle of Wight. This week, the southern UK has experienced severe thunderstorms which at least provided the opportunity to capture the above image. Yesterday afternoon's storm here (NW of London) lasted about two hours and resulted in aircraft taking tortuous routes into Heathrow in an attempt to avoid the cells. We had the full range of sound and light special effects, with the exception of Vincent Price emerging from the woodwork. Well, you can't have everything, I suppose.
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05-23-2014, 06:09 AM | #2 |
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So.... when did the huge machines start to crawl up out of the ground and begin ray-gunning everything??
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05-23-2014, 07:32 AM | #3 |
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Marble sized hail shoveled off porches around here... earth, we broke it.
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05-23-2014, 03:18 PM | #4 |
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Carruthers, as a lightning photograph connie-sewer(I've stolen 988 of them), I must say that's a winner. Nice, very nice.
Um, make that 989.
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Some more here for your delight and delectation. Two or three probably up to the standard of that above. Daily Mail
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05-23-2014, 05:14 PM | #6 |
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It is a lovely photograph.
I see the opportunity to capture strikes like this by finding a suitable overlook with the storm in the distance, so a wide field of view offers a chance to see more places the lightning might strike. Then, set your camera on a tripod, set the sensitivity to the lowest possible ISO, and the longest possible exposure (for my unmodded Canon G10, that's 15 seconds, with chdk, I can go much, much longer), consider adding darkening filters if needed or possible to reduce the amount of light getting to the camera's sensor/film. then take several (long) exposures in succession, hoping that during one of your bursts the lighting will show up. In the picture above, it's the porchlight at the structure that shines like a searchlight that gives it away for me. it may well be nighttime when this shot was taken, but with a loooooooonnnnnggg exposure, all that light accumulates on the sensor, giving the sense of daylight.
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Yes, it featured prominently on the front page of The Times on Wednesday this week, and in several other national newspapers as well.
Thanks for the explanation of the technicalities. I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but at least I can appreciate the end product. This is somewhat tangential to the thread, but this letter appeared in The Times this morning: Quote:
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On the same tangent.
With all the ships bustling in, out, and around, England...er, Great Britain, and all those pointy rocks along the edge, traffic control would have become a priority long ago... 500 years long ago. Looks like Trinity Leith came first with the nod from King Robert II in 1380. Quote:
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Aside - I think "seamarks" used in the editors letter rolls off the tongue much more pleasantly than light houses.
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/
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05-24-2014, 04:29 PM | #10 |
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Yes I've seen several similar sites showing ship or plane traffic these days, it's really bedlam around the popular destinations.
But 500 years ago there was far less traffic on the seas... except around England. Not only ships bringing booty from the empire, and shipping the undesirables out, but moving things like coal around the home island. Lots of traffic, lots of wrecks, lots of heroics, and lots deaths. Oh, and lots of tragedies... like the money lost by the ship owners when it sank with all hands. Of course that led to the founding of Lloyd's, but that's another tangent.
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