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Lightening By The Lake
Lightening By The Lake
shadeeua


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 30 Seconds or More (Basic Editing III*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6G
Location: Palo Pinto, TX
Date: Jun 16, 2006
Shutter: 30 seconds
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jun 18, 2006

 Taken from a friends lakehouse window during a thunderstorm on Possum Kingdom Lake. Don\'t ask what the speckled red stuff is cuase i dont know, im assuming its just the way it was processed in my camera since a long exposure would not capture any dust in the air, especially since no flash was used. Anyway, set my camera to 30 seconds, let it decide my F stop, set focus to infinity and kept clicking. Tried to time with the thunder but due to the amount of clouds, very few of the bolts would shine through, this is one of the very few. First attempt at lightening shots, and im sure its not supposed to be done through a window, but im just not that brave... and my equipment is not yet waterproof.

Statistics
Place: 76 out of 170
Avg (all users): 5.6234
Avg (commenters): 5.9167
Avg (participants): 5.3377
Avg (non-participants): 5.6948
Views since voting: 996
Views during voting: 564
Votes: 385
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/27/2006 11:30:14 PM
Beautiful shot. Creative capture showing the docked boats here. Nice work.
 06/26/2006 11:46:18 PM
Great capture. Something about seeing lighting that just makes the hair on my arms stand.
 06/25/2006 12:19:22 PM
Good capture.
 06/24/2006 12:38:13 AM
not sure how you got this shot w/ a 30 sec exposure.
 06/23/2006 12:18:05 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Aesthetics:1
Technical: 1
Wow: 0
Originality:1
Total Score: 5
 06/22/2006 11:13:30 AM
Very moody, I wish I could have seen more of the green foreground and less of the top portion of the sky, I think that would have improved this shot but I like it too as it is.
 06/22/2006 09:24:53 AM
The colors aren't working for me. Great capture, but the greens gotta go.
 06/22/2006 12:04:23 AM
Very cool shot :) Nice colors :)
 06/21/2006 10:47:12 PM
I think you've gone too wide here, so there is more attention on the buildings (boat yards? at first I thought they were cars being stripped!) and less on the lightning, with the landscape becoming black and featureless. I'd suggest zooming in further, and allowing the landscape to be exposured a little more strongly to add some feature.
 06/21/2006 11:29:23 AM
Nice green/purple thing... I might have sliced the buildings right out and cropped just to include the rock face... I probably would have lopped off the top and left fifths as well...

Not that this would have made it better, just one person's opine.
 06/21/2006 03:02:12 AM
I find the green a little off settling but the capture of the lighting is decent, I've of tried to get close to the lake and had lake in the foreground and lighting in the background.
 06/21/2006 01:13:13 AM
Great lightening shot here.....


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