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Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 19 May 2011, 05:12
by airboatr
Hi gents and ladies <<< ( I saved the best for last ;) )

I walked out of the grocery store the other night and saw one of the most colourful sky I can remember. The spectacular violet green orange clouds grabbed the attention of those who left the store in the last few minutes of the sun setting.
My phone camera does it little justice.
Seeing the green gave me good reason to get home and grab my camera and wait for the lightning show.
I have a little video of the event I'm working to clean up and will upload. Although it's not great because of the limitations of low light sensitivity , it will though give a very good idea of the number of flashes that happened in a moments time.
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A short animation of a series of 16 second exposures.
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Re: Some pics of local electrical storm

Posted: 19 May 2011, 05:52
by VEGAS
Awesome snaps Joe. :-O :-O

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm

Posted: 19 May 2011, 06:32
by Garry Russell
Great cloud scape there Joe

Always a difficult subject to capture :)

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm

Posted: 19 May 2011, 06:34
by airboatr
Thanks Eddie. :)

Here is the Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvIwaoifm2A

Turn up the volume and you can hear the water lapping against the shore.

But not one bit of thunder.

oh Garry you stepped on me there :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks mate...... no really ;)

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 19 May 2011, 10:28
by WhisperJet
Fantastic!!! :thumbsup:

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 19 May 2011, 11:08
by Tomliner
Really dramatic.Great photos!EricT

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 19 May 2011, 23:41
by nigelb
Great pictures and video, Joe! Florida certainly gets its share of spectacular thundestorms.

Nigel²

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 20 May 2011, 18:19
by airboatr
Just one more animation from the first three photos I took. the fouth capture was video, but now that I see what was happening, I wish I'd kept taking stills as
it would have made for a better showing of the developing storm. ... me and my bright ideas Image .... Stay the course man Image

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Thanks for the comments gents but it was nature doing all the work. All I had to do was point the camera and press de bouton.

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 21 May 2011, 21:46
by simondix
Where was this storm?

Re: Some pics of local electrical storm ( w/ Video)

Posted: 21 May 2011, 22:07
by Garry Russell
West Palm Beach, Florida :)