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um 50mm F1.4 lens on F4 shutter speed 30sec, pointed at a massive electrically charged cloud using daylight white balance at night.
try to play with white balance and take same shots over and compare

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Behind The Lens

Location

In North Western Outback Queensland Australia in my home city of Mount Isa from atop of a huge hill affectionately known here as Telstra Hill due to the mobile phone and Radio towers up there. It is about 70metres high and lakes about 20mins to walk up the path.

Time

I think it was after 2030pm on a Sunday night we were all done with the day and curled up on the couch when someone posted on facebook about anyone seen the "Huge electric cloud going off over duchess"? So we looked out the door in the direction of Duchess and we were amazed. I scrambled to grab all my gear and dragged the Mrs (my unwilling assistant) out to the car and we headed for the hills literally!

Lighting

there was not much to work with but the cloud presented spectacular flashes of lightning constantly every 2 or 3 seconds for over 2 hours it was unlike anything i have ever seen or heard of before. I played around with my settings for different effects and results as i wanted a huge array of images captured but i didn't want too many that were the same. looking for nearby trees and plants to use as silhouettes in the foreground and waiting for mother nature to provide the amazing back lighting. changing my shutter speed and Aperture settings to obtain different results. also changing White balance settings will give vastly different results this is a DAYLIGHT setting in white balance which uses higher temperature tint like orange. which i don't like to use for Astro-photography as it makes things brown and gross. i love Tungsten for night sky.

Equipment

My 2nd hand trusty Canon 50D, Tripod with remote shutter release, i had my Canon 50mm 1.8 "nifty fifty", and a Canon USM II 50mm 1.2 "Ultra 50mm" Canon reg kit lens 18-55. plus one unwilling assistant

Inspiration

Basically I love lightning and love capturing it's awesomeness and unpredictability. love seeing it love shooting it and watching slow-motion videos of it is just amazing. you can get so many breathtaking shots in just one stormy day or even a short half hour appearance.

Editing

Yes a few little adjustments in Lightroom always helps improve and clean up small fixes especially with my basic equipment i get a few burnt pixels when shooting low light images with high aperture settings (little tiny blue and red dots) but these can be removed with spot removing tool and a whole lot of patience.

In my camera bag

My usual kit is my D50 Body, 18-55 kit lens, Canon 50mm1.8 , Canon 50mm 1.2 USM II, Sigma 10-22mm 3.5 Wide angle, Canon 55-250mm ZOOM, Remote shutter, 3 spare batteries with USB charger, Charging USB power bank, LED Torch, Lens wipes, Yongnuo Speedlite Flash,Monfroto basic alloy tripod

Feedback

If rain or storms are forecast don't head for indoors, grab your gear probably an umbrella too and always bring an unwilling assistant to not help at all. haha. but it is fun and you get some really cool shots if you dial your settings correctly to suit the conditions which can easily be done in manual mode with just a few test shots then you can set timers or remote shutters or even use triggers and sensors if you are lucky enough to own them. have your shutter open for at least 5 seconds and adjust the Aperture and ISO to suit tripod is best. even setting your camera to take a shot repeating every 5 seconds is good cause you can't reallymiss then. "REMEMBER THE BEST SHOT YOU WILL SEE IS ALWAYS THE ONE YOU DIDN'T TAKE" CAN'T STREESS ENOUGH HOW MANY TIMES SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS WHEN THE SHUTTER IS CLOSED! :(

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