I've been trying to get a special shot of the Minneapolis skyline for a while now. This isn't it :P About a week ago a storm rolled in, and lightning was hitting north of downtown. But there was no rain in the South! Yet. I was nearby a good spot to shoot from, so I set up the tripod and started some long exposures. Just as it started to drizzle I took my last exposure and got the hell out of there. I could tell the rain was going to come hard and sure enough, just as I got back to the car it started pouring.
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I noticed a good flash of lightning right at the end of my last exposure (before I picked up the tripod and started running) and thought "I hope that one's good." I wouldn't say it's good, but it is interesting. I've never ever seen a lightning bolt in a curved, sinusoidal shape like this. If you examine it closely it has some small notches in its path to the ground but overall it follows that curve. Cooool.
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Great shot, that's a really odd lightning bolt!
I was worried people would say "shit I see that all the time." I'm glad you and others think it's unique too.
I've never seen a lightning bolt do that, anywhere, my own photos or anyone else's! Photographing even normal ones is quite a challenge!
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I like this photo!
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That is a cool lightning bolt, never seen anything like it. Good vantage point for the city landscape!
Yeah it's the best spot I know from the South, though I wonder how the nearby highrises are for skyline shots. I'm not satisfied with this though, maybe I'll get lucky the next time there's a lightning storm :)
Ped bridge over I35? I see people taking photos there all the time. :) great shot.
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Amazing one again! :D
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That's pretty neat! Nice shot
I thought so. :) Thanks
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I appreciate that but I'm sharing it more because the lightning bolt was cool than it was a good shot :P
Well done. Lightning is something I've never managed to catch and I've never seen it make a sinusoidal waveform like that. How long were you exposures to get it?
Thanks. This was a 15 second exposure. The lightning hit in the last second and my hand was actually moving to the tripod as I heard the shutter close.
Cool, thanks for the info. I think I would be too scared of the lightning itself because knowing my luck either I or the camera would get struck!
That's a pretty awesome shot.
One of these days I want to go set up near the airport when it is storming and try to get some cool take off shots (hoping a lightning shot behind a plane)
A few weeks ago we were down in the cities for my wife's citizenship ceremony but we both forgot to grab the camera. We were sitting across 494 close to the MofA where I could have got some decent shots that day, but it wasn't storming anyway.
Any suggestions for locations for good pictures of incoming/outgoing from the airport pfunk?
I've never tried (serious) airplane photography. It depends on what kind of shots you're looking to get. I don't know locations for it. Just looking at Google maps satellite view should give you some ideas though. https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8808723,-93.2137983,6973m/data=!3m1!1e3
Getting a lightning bolt behind a (non-blurred) plane with a still camera would be a miracle. I think you'd be better off taking high-res (1080p+) video at a high framerate/high shutter speed, and just grabbing a frame out of it for a still.
It's beautiful! Is hard to capture these type of images! Great shot!
And your point is?
"Nature doesnt draw in straight lines"
Given the increased instances of geoengineering evidence, something too symmetrical like this makes me wonder if this was an artificially induced frequency adjusted lightning, or mother nature's handiwork?
I wrote this piece on the frequency grid of the Geoengineering behemoth manipulating our weather daily, you might want to take a peek. Lemme know if you have any feedback - Series : Geoengineering | NEXRAD/HAARP : Changing weather one RADAR at a time | Post 3