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Good morning all. I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
I finally got a chance to try out my Lightning Bug that I won as a door prize at the last GNPA Photo Expo several months ago. Still learning the settings, but it was fun to try it last evening as I saw some lightning in the sky some distance away. This was the best of the lot.
Photo site - http://donlwilliamsphotography.com
"A moment in time
Immortalized forever
With silver and light"
Hi Mark.
That’s a nice shot. So is the Lightning Bug some sort of hardware that helps capture shots of lightning?
I was going through old photos (some as far back as 2004) to regain some hard drive space, and (of course) got sidetracked; this time trying to combine two differently exposed images into one with higher dynamic range. Didn’t work out great; this is the best I could do…
OGIM.
Don, that’s one top lightning shot, awesomely dramatic.
The one only other lightning shot I took was in Tasmania at a beach at low tide. On that occasion
I had time to employ a tripod and set the camera to bursts of 10 frames each until I knew that I had captured
a few flashes of which this was the best. Please note the distant figure, which is the fearless Sandra flirting with fate!
Archives, 2003MY FLICKR
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She is one lucky woman! Don’t tempt it again please!
Sandra has survived two near death experiences. Angels are immune to lightning.
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The camera kneads the dough, PP bakes the bread - GreenhillPlease tell me more about this lightning bug, Don? {edit, I have googled it but I’d still love to hear more from your use of it.}
If you googled it then you know basically how it works. Very simple to operate, so far. It sits in the hot shoe of my camera with a cable attaching it to the camera. The cable plugs into the same socket that a remote control uses, so when the device detects the infrared that happens just before the “flash”, it opens the shutter. The cable is geared to the camera you use. When I used it the other night, I set the camera on a tripod, attached the Lightning Bug, and waited for the lightning to happen. There are 3 control buttons on top, one for power, and two for adjusting sensitivity up or down. I did determine (after the fact) that I probably did not have the sensitivity set high enough but I will not make that mistake again. Overall it will be a fun toy to play with when the opportunity presents itself, which is not very often. I’ve had it for several months now and this is the first time I have really been able to try it out.
It’s a bit expensive though. I don’t believe I have one decent lightning shot and where we live these day lightning is rare. So I won’t be getting one. regards – Peter
Yes, it is a bit expensive and I probably would never have bought one either. I had not heard of it before I won it as a door prize at a photo EXPO. But I’m glad I did.
Photo site - http://donlwilliamsphotography.com
"A moment in time
Immortalized forever
With silver and light"If you googled it then you know basically how it works. Very simple to operate, so far. It sits in the hot shoe of my camera with a cable attaching it to the camera. The cable plugs into the same socket that a remote control uses, so when the device detects the infrared that happens just before the “flash”, it opens the shutter. The cable is geared to the camera you use. When I used it the other night, I set the camera on a tripod, attached the Lightning Bug, and waited for the lightning to happen. There are 3 control buttons on top, one for power, and two for adjusting sensitivity up or down. I did determine (after the fact) that I probably did not have the sensitivity set high enough but I will not make that mistake again. Overall it will be a fun toy to play with when the opportunity presents itself, which is not very often. I’ve had it for several months now and this is the first time I have really been able to try it out.
Yes, it is a bit expensive and I probably would never have bought one either. I had not heard of it before I won it as a door prize at a photo EXPO. But I’m glad I did.
Well they did tell us how it works. Doesn’t sound difficult to make.
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