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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CarlosL on August 06, 2002, 09:00:39 PM
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Hey guys I took some pictures outside when we had a crazy lightning storm, figured I'd share them with you. Tell me what you think.
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Another
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Those two above our my best pics, this one is a little blurred
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It was tough to get pictures of this great flashes of light but I tried. If you guys want to know I was using a Sony Cybershot DSC-F707.
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Carlos great pictures. Did you use a digital or SLR camera.
I have an olympus 2100 ultrazoom and just havent been home at the right times to catch a storm.
I am hoping to use some of the neat features of the camera to simulate an open shutter shot to catch all of the streaks.
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I am using a digital camera. Heh still a huge newbie to this stuff, I was just sitting outside taking 3 shot bursts hoping I will catch some nice shots. Thanks.
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Nice Carlos! I've got a Sony F707 too. Were you able to use a Tripod, or did you have to get it while the getting was good?
On the miniscule chance that you don't know about this site, here is one of my favorite digital photography sites:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp Check out the forums. VERY informative...
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Thanks Gunthr! hey no way! You live in South FL too? Where are you at? BTW I was not using any tripods just my shaky hands hehe
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Right next to Ft. Lauderdale :)
How bout you?
Its tough to shoot low light without a tripod, but sometimes you have to take what you get. I've been trying to get a lightning shot for weeks and weeks...
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CarlosL, nice pics!
Gunthr, thanks for the link!
Regards,
wSNPR
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Heck yeah! Cool stuff!
You can tell it's digital by the couple of maxxed out pixels in the shot. (it happens, no sweat).
The advantage is that you can actually take pictures of lightning, since if you miss a shot -- no sweat! you can delete it!
I got a Nikon Coolpix 995 a couple months ago, and blew about 70 shots on a thunderhead that set up 5 miles east of where I was at about sunset. No danger on this side, but underneath they were blowing the tornado sirens.
There was still plenty of light, so I didn't get the cool effects you got (nice job going for underexposure, btw), but here's probably the best of the ones I took. You can only see part of the lightning bolt in the picture.
(and yeah, I too had to knock down the resolution to get it to fit)
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nice carlos!
[EDIT: BTW, I know saving the files from a digital camera as .JPG reduces the size... but I cant seem to reduce it enough to attach some other really neat pics. Whats the best way to do this without killing the quality?]
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Those are pretty cool! I like the first one- good color and texture to it.
When I was in college I took a photography class for fine arts majors (I wasn't in the program, just took the class). One of our projects was landscape photography that depicted some sort of action. The next night we had a good display of upper-atmosphere lightning and I shot it using open-shutter with remote trigger (about 3-second exposures, so I was getting multiple bursts). When class met the following week I turned in my shots. None of the other kids had shot the storm. I got the top honors - smiley face for the week. I still think its one of the best shots I've ever taken.
The kid who took second place had made a pilgrimage to the beach and shot waves. The surf was down that day.
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In answer to the question, you can't reduce the image memory size without losing quality.
Generally to get it to fit here you have to redimension the image, and use pretty extreme JPEG compression. That compression makes the resultant image look worse (like in my photo above).
If I have time, I often save the image (to be transmitted via email or message board) at different JPEG compression ratios, and find the one that has the best quality/memory ratio.
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Damn, I was expecting some photos of a P-38. :)
-- Todd/Leviathn
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surprised you were able to catch anything on a digital camera. I have a sony something or another but the delay from the time you press to the time it takes the picture, I'm lucky to catch the grandbaby smiling let alone lightning.
Am I doing something wrong or is the delay just a fact of life with a digital camera?
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Damn, I was expecting some photos of a P-38.
something like this
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Wow nice shots, thanks for the replies guys. Oh BTW I live in Miramar, I practically live in pembroke pines just that I'm across miramar parkway..so that makes me miramar.
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Oh hey guys post other cool pics if you got them, i have too many but my favorite our these
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My cat, hehe.
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CarlosL..you might find this site interesting
http://www.lightningstalker.com/
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Froggy in my backyard
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Nice Bufo, Carlos :)
Eagler, I have the same problem with the delayed action of the digital.... its really a chancey thing to catch lightning or fireworks...
(http://srg2000.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/asterweb.jpg)
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Yeah, the delay is because we're all cheapskates. Our Digital cameras are basically point-and-shoot cameras, and most of the film versions of those have that annoying delay too. Now, if we had digital SLRs things might be different.
Anyone reading this can feel free to send me a digital slr. :)
Anyway, since we're putting up moon shots, here's mine:
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and for the "closeup of animals", I submit some obscene photography:
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I'll send you out a DSLR right away Dinger.... as soon as I can scrape up $5k - might be a while ;)
Nice moon shot, with it peeping out btw clouds.
Your "obscene" macro shot - LOL, that bulbuous, fleshy thing the ant is on does look obscene! Great shot.
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Wow nice pictures of the moon and ant. What camera are you using?