Dick McGowan
EF5
I started out the day, hoping other storms would interact with boundaries like the Brown/Atchison county tornado in NE KS, and was about 20 m north of Mound City when that storm died. So I raced back north, taking shortcuts around traffic and hoping the one heading into the North KC metro would (could see it was getting close to it) produce. I got on the storm east of KC somewhere and followed it forever. It had a nice shelf cloud on it, and as the storm weakened, the shelf cloud looked better and better.
I forgot my tripod and 10 mm lens at home, which I would have given anything for. I leaned my camera up against my car and tried to hold it at a 15-30 degree angle for anywhere up to 3-8 seconds at 800 ISO. Most didn't come out so well, but a few did. Twice yesterday, I happened to hit the shutter at the perfect time and got CG's, this one, almost halfway into it, any closer and everything would have been blown out (though I got excited and had a little camera shake). The other, in broad daylight as I was driving testing out the metering on the sky.
Not a bad night, the structure was great for such a crap storm.
Lightning on this one illuminated all of the details perfectly.
I forgot my tripod and 10 mm lens at home, which I would have given anything for. I leaned my camera up against my car and tried to hold it at a 15-30 degree angle for anywhere up to 3-8 seconds at 800 ISO. Most didn't come out so well, but a few did. Twice yesterday, I happened to hit the shutter at the perfect time and got CG's, this one, almost halfway into it, any closer and everything would have been blown out (though I got excited and had a little camera shake). The other, in broad daylight as I was driving testing out the metering on the sky.
Not a bad night, the structure was great for such a crap storm.
Lightning on this one illuminated all of the details perfectly.
