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Bit violent out there at the moment...
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Posted 11 months ago #
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go on then? what is it?
this reminds me of theat scene in hotshots.
my guess is...
lightning?
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We need to harness that electricity!
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yep, we get a feed from the lightning radar. Seeing as our office sits in one of the biggest lightning conductors.....
You can have a look here... http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
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thats cool. but im immensly jealous as there is f all in sheffield.
nice bit of lightning could trip the servers here perhaps? give me a nice afternoon off?
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That's why I couldn't log onto it you stole the webpage!!!!!
Posted 11 months ago # -
woooah look at that big one over the alps . . . .
Flew over the alps once, and you could see a storm in the distance, like a big black ball with lightening shooting out of it, . . I didn't wake the missus it would have terrified her!!
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fine and sunny here
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It's an awesome storm here. Huge hail. It's cleared the air a bit. Clearing later so will make this evenings ride perfect
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Ran to work in flip flops this morning.
Dodging the puddles and lighting will be fun this evening
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It's stopping the Cricket
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We need to harness that electricity!
Sweet FA of it there to harness TBH, in the order of 250 gallons of petrol's worth per strike.
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woooah look at that big one over the alps
That's heading for me, that is. I'll let you know what it ends up being like!
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Sunny now
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Chunky are you actually on the IW?? If so where? Im in Ryde, we didn't get any hail, just rain!
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is it from wargames
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Nothing here either
Moderator: Hotlinked image removed following complaints from the owner about server load. Sorry, I know it's his responsibility but didn't think anyone would be upset by my removing this one
Posted 11 months ago # -
This was Brighton a couple of hours ago..
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was crazy in london earlier enourmous hailstones
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bigyinn - Member
Chunky are you actually on the IW?? If so where? Im in Ryde, we didn't get any hail, just rain!
Nope
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Molgrips, you got a webcam
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Nice pic, urchin.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Nowt but blue skies and a fine breeze ere in South Devon.
Shame as i was beginning to enjoy wet rides.
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I'm under that big red dot, but nothing here yet! It must be coming!
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Well nothing happened.. I think the Alpine red dot was a glitch tbh. Nothing but blue skies all day, and 30 degree heat
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storms in the alps are usually localised. that big red dot is ~300km away.
wait until this afternoon.... you get a great view from my balcony. it looks west over munich so you get to see the storm rolling in towards you.
alternatively go over the fields (neukeferloh biergarten) and watch the storm coming from there.
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Lightninng is ace. I love photographing lightning.
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My balcony looks south (normally, but they're working on the building so we can't see anything) which is nice cos you can see the mountains, but not good for seeing the storms.
I've raced a few of those bad boys home from work several times this year already
I tried to photograph the lightening, but failed a bit. I don't have a remote shutter release, which doesn't help.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I took about 500 shots yesterday and ended up with two of actual lightning strikes. Long exposures and an intervalometer is the way to go, plus a few hours to look at every shot and confirm the total lack of anything happening in it.
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Tripod, f11, timer and "b" setting?
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Is there a B setting on DSLRs?
+1 for lightning being ace. Esp. when it's right over head and the thunder is almost simultaneous. That gives me big goosebumps!
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Yep, keep winding the ISO down until you get there. (Or at least there should be, not all cameras are the same...).
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Lots of ND filters on the front, manual mode, longish exposures (mine were about 6-8 seconds). The intervalometer lets you set it going and leave it running for the whole storm (memory card and buffer permitting). Harder in daylight obviously, at night you can open the shutter for much much longer with much less ND filter malarky. Don't get storms like that much down here though.
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Tripod, f11, timer and "b" settin
Yeah but you need a remote release to hold bulb.
How bright is a lightening-lit scene though? Too much ND and you'll not see any scenery surely?
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