Emily's Escapades » cool photos http://blog.emilyminor.com Life in Shanghai, China Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:01:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The new best lightning photo http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/27/new_best_lightning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new_best_lightning http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/27/new_best_lightning/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:34:44 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=1196 I thought it was special to get lightning shots before, but it’s actually not that hard.  Basically, you keep the shutter open and hope a bolt appears in at least a few photos.

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This one hit really close.  This photo is not Photoshopped (well, basic levels and cloning out some dust.)

huge bolt zoom

Close up, lightning looks just awesome!  You can see little white particles of energy all around in the air.

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/27/new_best_lightning/feed/ 0 More lightning strikes http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/26/more_lightning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more_lightning http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/26/more_lightning/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:45:24 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=1189 Last week it poured rain every afternoon.  Along with the rain came a few huge lightning storms!  I took a couple hundred photos, and captured about eight different strikes.

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Who said lightning never strikes in the same place twice?  I have two photos of it hitting the Pearl TV Tower now, and saw it happen close-up another time.

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This is a composite of five different photos.

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You can see that each one is hitting a building!

More lightning photos to be posted tomorrow.

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