Stormy Weather

Last couple of days have given some impressive thunder storms.

Here are some photos of todays storm from my bedroom window, it looks like something from independence day.

 

Wow Adam, it's sending tingles down my spine just looking at your pictures this morning.
That dark moody appearance - so wonderfully captured,
thanks for sharing,
Jenny

 

Great photos Adam ! You don't have any alien Tripods wandering around Kent this morning do you ?

 

Nice pictures, I tryed to take some last night but they didn't come out, is there any tips please in which to take picture like yours

 

Fantastic pics Adam...

@Jiffy ...I set my camera on 'rapid fire' (that's my technical term for it) and hope for the best,when it starts getting too hairy I run

 

Brill shots

 

Amazing photos!!

 

wow, stunning!

 

You would have to have very fast reactions to photograph lightening.

It really depends on the light, the images I took the night before were no where near as good, and to be honest without those clouds the photos wouldn't be worth posting.

Watch the storm and get an idea where most of the strikes are happening, then find a good spot and video it on full HD. then you can play it back frame by frame and select the images you want.

The way I do it is film a spot, and then as soon as a strike happens stop filming and then start filming again, that way you will know that any good lighting strikes you get will be at the end of the video so you don't have to sit there and watch it all the way through.

I am lucky that I had such a good view from the window, but that will all change when they start building there.

 

Great pictures Adam! You wouldn't see me for dust let alone take pictures. I've lived in three houses that have been struck by lightning and it's scary stuff!

 

Thank you adamsh, i never thought of that

Is that on your bridge camera?

 

Hi Wiseowl,

No photoshop involved

On the videos I took, the lightening was over in a blink, lucky if it lasts a second. Selecting the best frames from that video give it more impact that watching the video its self.

My problem with trying to take actual photos is, by the time your brain registers a flash, its all over by the time you push the button. if you set it to rapid fire you would end up with 100s if not 100s of photos in no time with nothing happening, and its sods law that as soon as you run out of space or stop taking them something will happen right infront of the camera.