Daylight Lightning

[hector]

Friday the 20th of November saw a FANTASTIC storm cell move across the lower part of the Central Coast with the centre over Umina. This was one hell of a storm with amazing amounts of Lightning. The storm was slow moving so I was able to catch it perfectly. I stopped the camera down to f16 and set it to a 1 second exposure and a 2stop filter. After I saw where the lightning was stiking most often I trained my camera in the area and shot image after image. Luckly the Nikon can shoot 26 images straight without stop. in most cases I only had to count up to about 10 shots before I recorded lightning. as the storm got closer I found that I could take it up to f11 and get even better results with brighter lightning. I have selected some of the better images to show you 2 from the beach and then 3 more after i to seek shelter from the rain.
Hope you enjoy.

[lacad01]

:thumbsup: streuth!! :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Zap Bam Pow!
Awesome captures.

[gary]

Hi Andrew,

The lightning strikes themselves are extremely clear and well focused!

Those people would have to be keen to be standing out on a beach in a lightning
storm. Hang on, you are standing out on a beach in a lightning storm! :)

[hector]

Gary you above almost all people should know I would be the first idiot standing outside during the storm. Image 2 was the closest stike which was less than 500m by esitmate on sound. There was a definate close strike on the beach which I didnt catch that had me jump about 6 feet. At best the lightning struck at the waterline while I was under the new SLC at Umina, about 100m away.
I have included 2 more images from that shoot as well.

[mithrandir]

At close range the thunder doesn't rumble. It just goes BANG.

The closest strike I can be sure of was on the palm tree across the road. There was no delay between the flash and the bang, the house shook , and the tree caught fire.

[sheeny]

Very cool, Andrew.

Love a good lightning shot.:thumbsup::D

Al.

[iceman]

Nice shots Andrew, I remember that storm from Friday arvo. It was a beauty alright.

[StephenM]

Great collection of shots Andrew!

Cheers,
Stephen

[hotspur]

Great photos Andrew!

you did well to capture these,its allways tricky to

get good lighting shots,nice to see a bit of EXIF data

helps others.

PS nice to read that your a 'fleetwood Mac' fan

i enjoy their music,

Cheers Chris:thumbsup: