Posted by Todd Caudle on August 14, 2007 at 1:58 AM
Bob, I went chasing that lightning south of town, and while it was stunningly beautiful, it was a bit sporadic. I headed west of town instead, and caught a few bolts. Not as spectacular a storm as Saturday, or Sunday of last week, but still some pretty awesome, downright evil-looking bolts.
The remote switch works like a dream, btw.
Posted by Todd Caudle on August 14, 2007 at 2:04 AM
This is kind of a severe crop, so the noise really shows up, but I thought the bolts were cool.
Todd - The second shot is interesting with the way the bolts move but the first shot is simply stunning!
Posted by Paul Beiser on August 14, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Wow, both are nice, but I concurr with CAZ - that first shot is stunning!
Posted by Tom Magnuson on August 14, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Great shot Todd! Can't wait for your city lights - lightning shot.
No, I do not know what my downtown strike hit with the shaky city lights. I have seen strikes hit transformers and a burst of sparks follows, but never got it on an image.
Posted by Gabi Lach on August 14, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Todd, the first one is a painting, right? Very cool shot! Love it!!
Posted by Bob Falcone on August 14, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Great job as usual, Todd!
We were on a call at the State Fairgrounds when I saw the lightning down that way, and figured you'd be out.
Posted by Todd Caudle on August 14, 2007 at 11:40 AM
There was one bolt, which I didn't catch, that struck somewhere and produced a blue glow on the ground that lasted for about a second. I couldn't see what it hit, but it was pretty freakin' cool to see an afterglow like that.
That first one has big, immediate impact, but I actually like the meandering path of the bolts in the second one. It's like they're dancing.
Don't know if you've ever tried Noise Ninja - I ran that second image through the filter a couple of times this morning and it did a really nice job. It would probably work better to run NN on the full image before cropping, but even on the cropped version it looked pretty good.
Posted by Tom Magnuson on August 14, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Todd, that afterglow you saw was likely a transformer. They don't do too well with several million volts racing through them
Posted by Todd Caudle on August 14, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Tom: I thought about that, but whatever was glowing was behind a horizon line, out of sight.
Rick: NN is something I've wanted to pick up, just haven't gotten around to it. Sounds like a great, worthwhile program.
Posted by Laurent Baig on August 14, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Nice! Guess I'll have to break out the digital before our storms stop
Posted by Adam Schallau on August 14, 2007 at 9:25 PM
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16 repliesThe remote switch works like a dream, btw.
No, I do not know what my downtown strike hit with the shaky city lights. I have seen strikes hit transformers and a burst of sparks follows, but never got it on an image.
We were on a call at the State Fairgrounds when I saw the lightning down that way, and figured you'd be out.
Don't know if you've ever tried Noise Ninja - I ran that second image through the filter a couple of times this morning and it did a really nice job. It would probably work better to run NN on the full image before cropping, but even on the cropped version it looked pretty good.
Rick: NN is something I've wanted to pick up, just haven't gotten around to it. Sounds like a great, worthwhile program.