Emily's Escapades

Makeshift polarizing filter

by emily on August 20, 2010

Unfortunately, my good lens had a slight malfunction so it’s in the repair shop so I had to use another lens – one without a polarizing filter!  My sunglasses working surprisingly well but I put them one after most all of the lightning had passed.  I’ve learned you really need a filter to cut down on the sky brightness when photographing lightning (especially when it is afternoon), or the bolts hardly show up.

Tags: lightning

Lightning hitting the Bottle Opener (SWFC)

by emily on August 19, 2010

Tags: lightning, Shanghai

Lightning!

by emily on August 18, 2010

I am obsessed with catching lightning.  I got about 20 bolts today in about 1,000 frames.

Tags: lightning

The new best lightning photo

by emily on August 27, 2009

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.

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

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

Tags: cool photos, lightning, Weather

More lightning strikes

by emily on August 26, 2009

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.

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.

This is a composite of five different photos.

You can see that each one is hitting a building!

More lightning photos to be posted tomorrow.

Tags: cool photos, lightning, Weather

New version of lightning

by emily on July 20, 2009

Tags: lightning