My very first Lightning shots

[Bill W]

Why is the sky normally blue when you look upwards? While if you see shots from a space shuttle or something, it's all black around the earth

Simple answer for you Jan;


<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"]"The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air. <o></o>


<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"]However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue. <o></o>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"]Out in space, the sky looks dark and black, instead of blue because there is no atmosphere. There is no scattered light to reach your eyes."

[bob williams]

Her is the crop you suggested:

Hmm I'm not sure about it. I like the fact that it lost the disturbing objects, however it somehow lost a sense of nature in it as well. It does seem unnatural going this way, while with the foreground objects you can see that it actually happened. I guess I was wrong [img]/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img] What do you think yourself?

I agree with you, it looks fake withoutreference objects

[bob williams]

Cool Shots.., I hope you used a Carbon Fiber Tripod, so you don't get fried!


That looks pretty scary!


That first shot is kind of unusual with the lightning going sideways as opposed to striking the ground.





Rich
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The lightning was very close, some strikes even hit our nieghborhood and yes, I had my trusty Gitzo CF tripod[:#]


Bob

[bob williams]

Cool Shots.., I hope you used a Carbon Fiber Tripod, so you don't get fried!


That looks pretty scary!


That first shot is kind of unusual with the lightning going sideways as opposed to striking the ground.





Rich
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The lightning was very close, some strikes even hit our nieghborhood and yes, I had my trusty Gitzo CF tripod[:#]


Bob

[Bill W]

Just an FYI Bob (and others)...carbon fiber does conduct electricity.

[bob williams]

Just an FYI Bob (and others)...carbon fiber does conduct electricity.
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NOW you tell me [:#]

[Bill W]

Well Bob, at least you didn't go up on the roof like someone else I know in the ABQ area....[li]

[Bill W]

Nice shots Bob....lightning is a good option to have after HBs.


Funny part is, my Nikonian cousin in ABQ sent me his first successful (vertical) lightning shots this morning....I opened my email first.


Here's a link you may enjoy; http://www.weatherscapes.com/techniques.php?cat=lightning&amp;page=lightning


Regards


Bill

[Tom Wertman]

Bob,


You have captued the light streak very well. I am curious as to why the sky is so purple though? Was it dusk or is this over exposure? Also I find the tree tops and roofs in the neighborhood a little distracting as if you were outside on you patio or deck.





Tom

[bob williams]

You have captued the light streak very well. I am curious as to why the sky is so purple though? Was it dusk or is this over exposure? Also I find the tree tops and roofs in the neighborhood a little distracting as if you were outside on you patio or deck.

Don't know exactly why the color purple---Just before the storm @ sunset the sky was actually a very rich gold color. These pics are pretty much as shot, I intended to leave some ground reference, hence the trees, But I guess I should crop out the houses. In fact, I did take these off my back porch---It was raining and I wasn't going to risk my gear.


Thanks for the feedback,


Bob