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My first ever lightning photograph. Been after that a long time. Then we get this gorgeous rainbow at sunset. High Res download available no charge for registered lizards. Just contact me at my email.
D_L and I scrambled to get these as we heard it coming. Lightning is rare in Los Angeles.
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Stanghazi Wed, Sep 29, 2010 7:32:50pm |
Excellent!!
I hope you are following PetaPixel
Such a great site
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Daniel Ballard Wed, Sep 29, 2010 7:41:22pm |
re: #3 b_sharp
Right out my door, upstairs. Two cameras, my Canon 7D hand held for the rainbow, and the Canon 40D on a Tri pod for a 10 second exposure. We just grabbed the bags and ran to get them. The killer-With digital cameras you have a long pause between long exposures. Nerve wracking in a lightning storm, or meteor shower. Cuts your chance to 50%.
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Henchman 26 Wed, Sep 29, 2010 7:43:49pm |
re: #4 Rightwingconspirator
Right out my door, upstairs. Two cameras, my Canon 7D hand held for the rainbow, and the Canon 40D on a Tri pod for a 10 second exposure. We just grabbed the bags and ran to get them. The killer-With digital cameras you have a long pause between long exposures. Nerve wracking in a lightning storm, or meteor shower. Cuts your chance to 50%.
Beautiful work.
Are they raw? What do you process them with?
How do you get them so rich?
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Daniel Ballard Wed, Sep 29, 2010 7:56:09pm |
re: #5 b_sharp
Yes, shot CR2 Canon RAW. The processor in both is the Digic II. AGS-c sensors in the cameras, cmos. So all the good data is there. Pulled them up in Photoshop CS4 for contrast and noise reduction. The rainbow shots were at a very high ISO, so a bit noisy. My one mistake in the rush.
So CS4 did the color work. Then I pulled them up in Picasa to add the copyright and size for LGF.
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reine.de.tout Wed, Sep 29, 2010 8:00:18pm |
The lightening photo is great.
But that second photo, with the rainbow and the angry clouds - just wow!
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Henchman 26 Wed, Sep 29, 2010 8:01:34pm |
re: #6 Rightwingconspirator
Yes, shot CR2 Canon RAW. The processor in both is the Digic II. AGS-c sensors in the cameras, cmos. So all the good data is there. Pulled them up in Photoshop CS4 for contrast and noise reduction. The rainbow shots were at a very high ISO, so a bit noisy. My one mistake in the rush.
So CS4 did the color work. Then I pulled them up in Picasa to add the copyright and size for LGF.
Thanks.
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mr.JA Thu, Sep 30, 2010 8:36:32am |
re: #4 Rightwingconspirator
Right out my door, upstairs. Two cameras, my Canon 7D hand held for the rainbow, and the Canon 40D on a Tri pod for a 10 second exposure. We just grabbed the bags and ran to get them. The killer-With digital cameras you have a long pause between long exposures. Nerve wracking in a lightning storm, or meteor shower. Cuts your chance to 50%.
Can't you turn the in-camera noise-reduction off? That will probably increase the nr of hot pixels, but not let you miss that many shots...
I love the 3rd picture, ace!
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Decatur Deb Thu, Sep 30, 2010 8:54:03am |
The lightning shots are cool, but the rainbow from Hell wins the day.
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Sep 30, 2010 10:25:21am |
re: #11 mr.JA
Can't you turn the in-camera noise-reduction off? That will probably increase the nr of hot pixels, but not let you miss that many shots...
I love the 3rd picture, ace!
Whoa. Is the noise filter the reason the images are slow to process?
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