Thunderstorm

fishing4sanity · Oct 9, 2017

Great photo capturing the intensity that Mother Nature sometimes throws out there.

WesternGuy · Oct 9, 2017

Nice capture. Is this from a multiple exposure? Just curious as it looks like a lot of lightning at one time.

WesternGuy

Destin · Oct 9, 2017

Beautiful moody image!

smoke665 · Oct 9, 2017

Wow great shot

The Barbarian · Oct 9, 2017

Long exposure. Several seconds of bolts. If you look close, you can see some motion in the clouds. No blur though; the lightning was like a flash unit.

smoke665 · Oct 9, 2017

My K3II has a feature that allows multiple "additive" shots. (merged into one), that is different from the in camera HDR feature. I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet, but is this something like you did, or was it just a single long exposure?

The Barbarian · Oct 9, 2017

Because the shutter was so slow, I had it stopped way down, with a fairly low ISO. It really came out to be I think four separate exposures, because there was nothing much being recorded without some light.

Notice the big bolt on the right, down below it, there's a cloud. You can see the movement of the cloud between flashes.

I think a really great use of that feature on your K3II would be to reduce noise with shots taken at high ISO in dark conditions.

WesternGuy · Oct 10, 2017

I found it a little hard to determine that the clouds were moving, but thanks very much for sharing the conditions of your imagery.

WesternGuy

rosh4u · Oct 10, 2017

Great!
Especially the moving clouds look great.

Rick50 · Oct 10, 2017

Very nice image!

The Barbarian · Oct 10, 2017

WesternGuy said:

I found it a little hard to determine that the clouds were moving

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If you look at the clouds just above the tree line, there are what appear to be very faint shadows of the clouds just above the actual image of the clouds.

I guess I could go in and fix that, but apparently, I'm the only one who actually noticed.