Wes Carter
EF5
I stumbled upon this photo of lightning and I am having a difficult time figuring out what I am seeing here. Does anyone have any idea what the large broad stroke is?
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Lightning?
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Jim Saueressig
EF5
A closer washed out strike that overwhelmed the camera sensor due to the aperture being to far open.
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Rob Wadsworth
EF5
I'll bite...
I think the shutter speed on your camera was set to about 1/2 of a second using a window tripod and a nice lens, and you caught a multistroke discharge moving in a single direction at a perpendicular angle to your location. Nice color and lighting on the building - too!
Can you crop out the car window? That would be a sweet shot made a tad better! Bring more of the building closer - too...
I think the shutter speed on your camera was set to about 1/2 of a second using a window tripod and a nice lens, and you caught a multistroke discharge moving in a single direction at a perpendicular angle to your location. Nice color and lighting on the building - too!
Can you crop out the car window? That would be a sweet shot made a tad better! Bring more of the building closer - too...
Ryan McGinnis
EF5
I agree -- classic blowout of a strike. Must've been pretty close!
Wes Carter
EF5
I should have been a bit more clear on who took the photo. I didn't take it, I found it geeking out and searching for lightning photos on Flickr. I thought the same thing you all did, that it was a close strike and the camera was close to the window. But what perplexes me is that it looks like it is behind the building in the photo. I'm sure that the expalnation is probably something really simple much like you all described, so don't think that I'm suggesting that it's some kind of 'super stroke' lightning. But the effect is odd.
James Langford
EF4
I have captured something similar a few years back:
As others have said, I'm guessing a close bolt coupled with a more open aperature on the camera. In my case, I was shooting around F4 to capture more distant bolts when this guy slammed down about 1/2 or so miles away.
James
As others have said, I'm guessing a close bolt coupled with a more open aperature on the camera. In my case, I was shooting around F4 to capture more distant bolts when this guy slammed down about 1/2 or so miles away.
James
Jim Saueressig
EF5
A few examples with before and after a bit of processing to show what might have been there:
Nothing out of the ordinary it is just to bright for the sensor thus blowing out the picture.
Nothing out of the ordinary it is just to bright for the sensor thus blowing out the picture.
Dan Robinson
If you have a RAW image you can sometimes recover some of the bolt, though the image will always suffer.
Here's another example:
Original:
http://stormhighway.com/blog/sept908ct.jpg
After processing:
http://stormhighway.com/blog/sept908dt.jpg
Here's another example:
Original:
http://stormhighway.com/blog/sept908ct.jpg
After processing:
http://stormhighway.com/blog/sept908dt.jpg
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