Tonight's lightening show.

[+Graham]

I have just witnessed something rather special if you like thunder storms that is.

I followed this storm using the brilliant weather site found by Steve.

I watched it cross the English channel and head towards me here in Ipswich.

 

 

 

 

At around a quarter to nine it struck .

It was to last for over an hour.

At its height there were lightening flashes at a rate of one a second and sometimes even more.

The noise was absolutely incredible at times.

I can only liken it to being in a scene from Close Encounters.

 

I did not know which way to point the camera so much was going on.

I had the camera set on continuous shooting mode and managed to rattle off over 2000 frames.

 

90% of the frames were just black and out of the other 10% most were unusable. 

 

This left these couple of shots.

 

The storm front arrives.

 

 

 

Most of the lightening was cloud to cloud strikes.

 

 

 

 

The next three shots are all of the same flash.

 

Several bolts came from different directions meeting at a single point right in front of me.

When all the different streaks met the intensity of the flash was blinding.

 

It lasted for so long it overwhelmed the camera and turned the blackness into daylight.

 

 

 

 

 

Over all an interesting experience.

 

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[+Bino-viewer]

Nice.......i love a good storm.

Enjoy.

 

(we could do with it in Derby as well. The bedroom is like a sauna again.

But it looks like its localised to the south east region only)

[+Graham]

Sadly it has moved off out to see. ?

But it might come back ?

[+Ibbo]

nice shots Graham

 

we had a good storm the other night and I was set up with camera till the heavens opened.

 

Did I get a shot.

nope not one

[Doc]

I love a good storm as well. Best I've ever seen was when we had our static caravan at Hunstanton looking out to see. The fork lightning was amazing, never seen it that bad since. We didn't get any last night though.

[+Bino-viewer]

As a keen photographer with plenty of room for improvement, whats the best way to shoot lightening ?

 

Given the 4K capability of modern cameras, wouldn't filming it (on a tripod) be best, and then taking out an individual frame ?

I've used this method on my iPhone (8+) to good effect.

My Sony MILC will shoot 4K, but we very rarely get storms in the midlands, and i've never had the chance to try it ? ?

[+Graham]

13 hours ago, Bino-viewer said:

As a keen photographer with plenty of room for improvement, whats the best way to shoot lightening ?

 

Given the 4K capability of modern cameras, wouldn't filming it (on a tripod) be best, and then taking out an individual frame ?

I've used this method on my iPhone (8+) to good effect.

My Sony MILC will shoot 4K, but we very rarely get storms in the midlands, and i've never had the chance to try it ? ?

 

That is not a bad idea Rob.

I will give it a go if it ever happens again.

We too do not normally get thunderstorms here as the land is so flat they normally pass us by.

[Guest]

Thunderbolts and lightning.

 

Very very frightening.