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Post by Flygvapnet_Viggen »

Wauw great pics on that rainbow Bert!! I like the contrasts and the difference of light and dark below and above the rainbows!! Well done!
Here is one nice pack of clouds that came overhead Stockholm yesterday evening, I like the pattern:

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keep on taking those photos!!!!
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I'd rather depict atmosphere and the 'heat of the moment' making a catchy photo than to reflect the real situation and real colours showing a boring photo.
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I saw so many good pictures of lightning that I decided to try that one time. Well this night it looked like fireworks, but it was almost all behind the clouds. So a lot of lighteffects, but no lightning...

1 The first picture is blurred, because my tripod wouldn't stand still in the gusts of wind.
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2 Then it started to rain, so I went inside my car and made some pictures through the windshield...
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3 A "big one", not photoshopped, just resized.
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4 Same picture, but with levels set darker.
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5 Same picture, but -130% contrast. It almost looks like daytime, but it was 01:19 local time!
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6 Same picture, but levels set to "the edge of darkness".
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7 Same picture, but now with saturation set to maximum...
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it was a boring thunderstorm last night. a lot of flashes but unfortunaly all behind the clouds. so no pics :evil:
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Post by Jan Stol »

Shame that the pic is overexposed Heron! :( That's one big smack on the ground! Let's hope for some more nice weather soon and then -as iceing on the cake- a big thunderstorm! :)

No seriously..
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Shame that the pic is overexposed Heron! :cry: That's one big smack on the ground!
Yeah... incredible. Automatic exposure in the middle of the night and even with photoshop I can't get an acceptable picture out of it :evil:

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Post by Key »

Meunings...
Heron wrote:Automatic exposure in the middle of the night and even with photoshop I can't get an acceptable picture out of it
Are you kidding? If I were to suggest one set of circumstances where automatic exposure obviously won't work, it probably would be a thunderstorm in the middle of the night...

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Post by Tropical »

Very nice pics in this topic!!
I've got some too...

A Cumulonimbus (rain/thundercloud) at sunset near De kooy:

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Beautifull colored clouds at sunrise:

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Thundercloud above sea:

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Instability as it should always be :wink: :

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rather big cumulonimbus...
notice the Apache flying under it...

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Meunings...
Heron wrote:
Automatic exposure in the middle of the night and even with photoshop I can't get an acceptable picture out of it.
Are you kidding? If I were to suggest one set of circumstances where automatic exposure obviously won't work, it probably would be a thunderstorm in the middle of the night...

Erik
Well... I saw so many lightflashes (it almost looked like Baghdad in '91) that I decided to let the camera sort that out. If I went with a too long exposure it would certainly over-expose when a BIG flash came; so I thought: I go for automatic, that will be no more than 30 seconds and when I get a big one, the camera will shut down by itself :lol:

Exif for that picture with big strike is:
shooting date/time: 01-09-2008 01:19:39
shooting mode: AE
shutter speed: 30
aperture value: 6,3
ISO speed: 200
focal length: 18
white balance: auto
AF mode: manual focusing

Next time I try different settings. As it is, you could say "I was fumbling in the dark" :lol:
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Just one:
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Brilliant shot, Joost!
Curious what the settings were.
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Post by Joost van Doorn »

F3.3
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Post by FrankCrebas »

great shotts all. I took this one @ Sheppard AFB earlier this year.

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Post by Jan Stol »

WAUW! :shock: :multi: Surreal!! :clap: Beautiful sky Joost, and what a setting Frank. Awesome shots! Keep 'em coming :takepicture:
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