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A problem with the long lens is that a slight bump moves the tower tip from the frame. This happened with the second discharge to the tower - however the lightning channel still made it into the frame:
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A shot of the camera/shelter setup:
| Fantastic Dan :) - Posted by Mick from UK |
| Those are amazing. You can practically see the electrons. - Posted by Katie from Melrose, MA |
| wow great work! - Posted by Dave |
| Thanks! Glad you all like it! - Posted by Dan R. from Charleston, WV |
| Very cool shots. Love the close-ups. I am happy you got to use your new toy. - Posted by Bill Hark |
| Wow. Very cool shots Dan. - Posted by Eric from Fargo, ND |
| Dan. Great images and video. Seeing the detail with the unconnected leaders is very helpful. You have a great setup. - Posted by Tom Warner from Rapid City, SD |
| Lightning my favorite element of Storm: now why can't my shots turn out this spectacular?!? *sigh* That tower sure got OWNED! - Posted by Karla from Burleson, TX |
| Thanks Tom! Those little leaders are visible on roughly a third to a half of subsequent return strokes on video. The lower few feet of the main channel gets severely stretched by the wind drift, so I believe the leaders are a sign of new propagation to fill that gap when it gets too big. I'd like to get nighttime long exposures to better capture these, but my main concern there is how far the main channels drift during the discharge. Continuing current and M-components are pretty long-duration with these, coupled with the wind drift means that the channels sweep across the frame quickly, smearing the exposure. I've been able to avoid this so far with the short daytime exposures. Can't wait to do more of these! - Posted by Dan R. from Charleston, WV |
| Thanks Karla! - Posted by Dan R. from Charleston, WV |
| Congratulations on your purchase. Looks like you got lightning close ups covered nicely. With that camera maybe you can catch a tornado 50 miles away :-) - Posted by Steve S. from Cape Canaveral, FL |
| Whoa! Amazing shots - both with the camera and to the tower. Thanks for sharing. - Posted by Ericka from Boston, MA |
| Unbelievable pictures Dan. I like your umbrella set-up too:-) - Posted by Pete McConnell |
| Excellent work!
Thanx for sharing... - Posted by Groucho Capt. Spaulding's World blog) from Kansas City-MO |
| Nice shots Dan - Looking forward to more ! Thanks - Posted by Randall O. from Alabama |
| Dan
What great pictures the best is here
I live in the lighting capital of the world (they claim) Grow up in Charleston
Sam - Posted by Sam from Fl |
| Amazing! I'm trying NOT to spend all day browsing the site. Just went through the tornado gallery--fantastic! - Posted by Katia from MI |
| fantastic shots well done would lov to be there!! - Posted by mitch from au |