Who loves storm chasing? Australia gets a lot of supercell thunderstorms and it used to be a pastime of mine when I lived there. Now that we live on a boat I prefer to keep the storms a little further away lol.
This is a shot I took over over the Watagan mountains in a remote forested wilderness area in New South Wales, Australia.
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Robert Downie
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Mind-blowing 😱😱Beautiful photography
Thanks
What kind of shutter speed would you use on lightning photos?
Beautiful shot.
I try and keep it less than 5 seconds; and then stack. Any longer you loose too much definition in the cloud bank.
Wow, that's stunning! Where I am, we get some wild storms, but I've never seen lightening on the ocean like this. Incredible shot and I love it.
Nothing like a good storm
Very true!
one exposure?
It is three short exposures stacked; the strikes were about 5 seconds apart. But I find that gives me better cloud definition than taking long (60 second exposures) which blur the storm front.
clouds usually look better on shorter exposures but then when the lightning strikes in the middle of shorter exposures it is frustrating :D
this looks like it was a light show so not that much chance of missing.
Now thinking how crazy are the lightning storms on a boat? :)
Lightning storms on a boat are not fun; when your mast is the tallest thing in the sea. Just need to hang next to someone who has a bigger boat than you lol