OzEclipse
10-01-2018, 11:03 AM
Having a short break out here at Uluru. It's been roasting hot, 42C every day.
A storm came in over Uluru last night. I saw the rain column in the distance and so drove to a spot that people don't usually go to for Uluru sunset to get the columns of rain in the same frame as the rock. People normally go to a car park on the other side, called the "Uluru sunset viewing carpark," and all watch from there like sheep. All the people in the sunset car park got rained on. I saw the lightning start striking & repositioned us for that. It was getting pretty dark & so I stopped the camera lens down to let less light in increased the required shutter time to 15 seconds per exposure. That in turn drastically increases the chances of capturing a lightning strike over trying to catch it using a short exposure where you rely on split second reaction time.
My mate was trying using continuous rapid exposures. He took 2700 rapid fire exposures and didn't even get one lightning strike. I caught three frames with lightning out of 27 frames of 15s exposures. This is the best frame.
Joe
A storm came in over Uluru last night. I saw the rain column in the distance and so drove to a spot that people don't usually go to for Uluru sunset to get the columns of rain in the same frame as the rock. People normally go to a car park on the other side, called the "Uluru sunset viewing carpark," and all watch from there like sheep. All the people in the sunset car park got rained on. I saw the lightning start striking & repositioned us for that. It was getting pretty dark & so I stopped the camera lens down to let less light in increased the required shutter time to 15 seconds per exposure. That in turn drastically increases the chances of capturing a lightning strike over trying to catch it using a short exposure where you rely on split second reaction time.
My mate was trying using continuous rapid exposures. He took 2700 rapid fire exposures and didn't even get one lightning strike. I caught three frames with lightning out of 27 frames of 15s exposures. This is the best frame.
Joe