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Uploaded: 07/14/10 8:49 PM GMT
Lightning at Grevinge, Denmark
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f/5.6, 25sec, ISO-100, focus unlimited. This is a scaled down image of the photo, and has been manipulated a bit, to give the best effect. Had a great storm sweaping over the country the other day - and it gave me the first chance in a very long time to try to catch a lightning bolt. Messed most of it up before I found the just right settings on my E-400, and THIS is my very first photography of a lightning bolt, but I'd be damned if it'll be my last! But when the next storm grows: use check list: 1) check battery is fully charged. 2) Manuel focus for "unlimited" is counterclockwise, not clockwise. 3) Remember to do a "pixel mapping" before shooting night shots, to minimize that damn noise. :-D

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::0930_23
07/15/10 3:20 AM GMT
I have never been fortunate enough to capture a shot like this Kristian. I have tried but a little slow on the uptake. Some good advice that I will take.

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Cameras are like people--sometimes they lose focus.
.MudMilF
07/15/10 12:56 AM GMT
Fabulous capture. Thanks for the technical advice.
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"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal." George Santayana
::OutdoorsGuy
07/15/10 10:59 PM GMT
Superb. Real nice for your first attempt. This is my next challenge, I hope to do as well as you did. Faved.
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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life throught Jesus Christ our Lord. -Romans 6:23
.icedancer
07/15/10 11:00 PM GMT
Wow, perfect timing and capture.
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::LakeMichiganSunset
07/16/10 12:25 AM GMT
It's an amazing photo. Nice work. Fran
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.Zeniac
07/21/10 7:06 AM GMT
not bad mate, cant wait to see your next shot at this
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"If everyone loved me, I would hate myself.."
::armasoub
07/22/10 1:58 AM GMT
Thundering Thor, it is Odin's Spear. Great Photo, and great colour. Sounds like you know what you are doing. What is Pixel Mapping?
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