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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: negativ3 on May 23, 2012, 02:36:36 am

Title: Storm over Phuket
Post by: negativ3 on May 23, 2012, 02:36:36 am

Playing with a DIY lightning trigger and the results are fairly promising so far.
Just need to watch the ambient exposure of windows.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7245/6998489928_a541cc2907_b.jpg)

Thanks for viewing!

Title: Re: Storm over Phuket
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on May 24, 2012, 04:04:00 am

Impressive bolt. I can't help thinking that it would be a much better photograph if you crop all the buildings, which are dull and unattractive, off the bottom, keeping just the hill in the distance and the sky.

I'd pay good money for something that allowed me to trigger lightning!

Jeremy

Title: Re: Storm over Phuket
Post by: negativ3 on May 24, 2012, 12:14:27 pm

Funny, a couple of people have said the same thing, and the detail at the hill top is not too bad, close-up. I will play with the raw when I get home.

Thanks for the crit.

One from tonight taken with a 100mm f2.8 macro. Almost the full frame shown, only the length being cropped to print size. At 200% you can see the strike and return path are almost the same.

Thanks again for viewing!

Title: Re: Storm over Phuket
Post by: Robert DeCandido PhD on May 26, 2012, 08:33:31 pm

Thai storms:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12167896

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12126851

double-clicking on them will enlarge considerably