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Pwbphotography
September 24, 2013
Shocking !!. Awesome shot, very well captured and beautiful detail. Well done on a well deserved award.
salmasalmaa
September 25, 2013
this is incredible!! Someday I hope to get a lightning shot. What an inspiration!
sandracockayne
September 26, 2013
Wowzer!
How perfectly captured is this Jules! One of the very best images I've seen in a long time.
Many congratulations on your feature too! (Just noticed this!)
Kudos :)
How perfectly captured is this Jules! One of the very best images I've seen in a long time.
Many congratulations on your feature too! (Just noticed this!)
Kudos :)
paultownley
November 02, 2013
This capture is packed with so much atmosphere,the timing is fantastic,well done....................
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Location
This was taken from Hobart in Tasmania, Australia. Looking across the Derwent River towards the Zinc Works.Time
This was at 9.50 pm on New Years Eve. It made the fireworks at midnight quite boring by comparison.Lighting
Keep safe.Equipment
I used my Pentax K10D and tripod with my 18-55mm kit lens. 32mm, 30 sec exposure at f11, 100 iso and a cable release.Inspiration
We virtually never get lightning storms here so when on came I just had to get some photos. It was on my bucket list.Editing
I did very minimal post processing, just auto levels and auto contrast and a little cropping. I let the lightning speak for itself.In my camera bag
This was an old image from New Years eve 2009 , so I have a different things in my bag now. I currently have My Pentax K3, a Pentax K5. Lenses: Pentax 50-135mm f2.8, Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6, Pentax Macro 100mm f2.8 Sigma 28-70mm f2.8, Pentax 50mm f1.4 and sometimes my Sigma 150-500mm Manfrotto 055XPROB Lee system ND Grad Filters, Lee ND400, HiTech ND Filters. Metz 50 AF-1 FlashFeedback
When photographing lightning expose for the image and composition. Not for the lightning. Any background street lights need to have their light controlled. This image I used f11 with a 30 sec exposure and 100 iso to control the street light and have picture quality and let the lightning take care of itself. It is brighter than any artificial light source and will be captured. Have a long enough exposure to capture any lightning about, and F stop to control any artificial lights and low iso for picture quality.