Lightning last night
Submitted by ranmar850 on Thu, 2018-01-25 11:12
Not Perth metro, but up at TP. I've been here for 18months, and these are the first I've managed. This is just a few.
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Dale
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That’s pretty cool, by TP, do you mean Tom Price?
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bleicester
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Great shots
Are these raw or have you touched them up a bit?
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ranmar850
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Yes, Tom Price
Touched them up? I only shoot in RAW, so I have to post process anyway. They have been cropped, and very light edits applied for adjustments to exposure--some of these were blown out and overexposed, really minor editing applied only. No adjustment to colour temp or tint, mostly none to saturation, that purplish tinge seems to come naturally in thunderstorms at the right exposure. The majority of these were shot at 20 second exposure, F5.6, ISO 200. Although I had to go down to ISO 100 and F7.1 as it was just too bright. And these are all single exposures, no layering of multiple exposures.
Camera is a Pentax K-70, with Sigma 18-125mm DC HSM lens.
meglodon
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Whoa, come on light my fire
Some great camera work thanks for the post.
Madmerv
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Lightning
Man that looks a bit to close for comfort.
With my carbon fibre tripod i would be shitting myself that the camera was going to be the next strike..Lol
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Faulkner Family
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great pics. would have been
great pics. would have been some great lightshows . nature sure puts on a show up that way
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ranmar850
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As far as comfort, pretty well perfect
Good lightning work requires that it is not too far away, or too close--for safety and the fact it will likely be raining on you anyway. These are cropped, and it was just beyond the next ridge, and sitting rather stationary. I have been photographing approaching storms, and had to run for cover as they just get too close for comfort. I had the lxuryof the ute only 20 metres away, I could have just got into that and let the camera keep working on its aluminium tripod if I'd been worried.
I found a good vantage spot here last year, and reckoned it had been hit at least twice within recent years--the iron ore pebbles were just blackened, melted and fused together over 2 or 3 metres
timboon
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I didn't realise you were up
I didn't realise you were up at TP Ralph, I was building camps ( exploration ) for FMG up there most of last year....
Awsome storms this time of the year hey!!
ranmar850
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I've been up there for almost 18 months
Mostly on TP site, but I've also covered for others at Marandoo and the old Brockman camp for short periods. We're doing what is known as the EIR--Electrical Infrastructure Renewal . Lots of really old HV gear up here in places, we are replacing it with all new switchgear, most of it remotely controlled from the OC, and most of the cabling underground, where possible. I'm supervising on an 8/6.
Dale
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I done a fortnight at Tom Price back in October and was based at B4, B2 and Jerriwah for most of the last 6 months last year. I work as a HSE manager for Sodexo.
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ranmar850
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Give us a PM if you are back in Tom Price
I'm camped at Windy
Dale
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Yep, Windy is one of my
Yep, Windy is one of my villages when I’m there.
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