Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Mark C]

Very cool, Cotty - you managed to capture and excellent lightning strike!

Mark

On 7/18/2014 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
balcony!

Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.



Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
it's bakin hot here!




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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[John]

On 7/19/2014 6:32 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

On 18/7/14, Richard Womer, discombobulated, unleashed:


Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the
clouds. Was it really that purple color?


The camera was on auto white balance - kept giving me orange and red
results, so switched to daylight WB which was an improvement, the blue
end. I figured there's no real effective way to truly measure the WB of
lighting - the clouds have an influence as they are reflecting some of
the light from the town which will be generally tungsten - so any
tweaking to 'correct' for perceived imbalance is accepted in my book. I
generally went for the 'look' as I physically recall observing at the
time. This appeared to me to be bluey/purpally in nature so that is what
I settled for in the final image.

Many thanks.



If you want some fun reading, Google "color temperature of lightning".

I generally find that any *fixed* WB will work because in Camera Raw I'm
going to use the eye dropper tool to select some spot in the clouds that
I think should be more or less 18% gray and then sync the rest of them
to the first one.

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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Jack Davis]

 Worthy pay off for persistence, Cotty!

J

- Original Message -
From: "David Mann" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 11:12:15 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

Cool shot.

We'd had a very mild winter so far until a couple of days ago when the southern 
polar vortex sneezed.

Cheers,
Dave

On Jul 19, 2014, at 9:32 am, Steve Cottrell  wrote:

> Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
> latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
> capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
> balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
> balcony!
> 
> Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
> one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.
> 
> <http://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath-cornwall-2014>
> 
> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
> it's bakin hot here!
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>  Cotty
> 
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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Steve Cottrell]

On 19/7/14, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Nice drama and colour, Cotty.

Thanks Bruce and thanks all :)


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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Steve Cottrell]

On 18/7/14, Richard Womer, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the
>clouds. Was it really that purple color?

The camera was on auto white balance - kept giving me orange and red
results, so switched to daylight WB which was an improvement, the blue
end. I figured there's no real effective way to truly measure the WB of
lighting - the clouds have an influence as they are reflecting some of
the light from the town which will be generally tungsten - so any
tweaking to 'correct' for perceived imbalance is accepted in my book. I
generally went for the 'look' as I physically recall observing at the
time. This appeared to me to be bluey/purpally in nature so that is what
I settled for in the final image.

Many thanks.

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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Bruce Walker]

Nice drama and colour, Cotty.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell  wrote:
> Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
> latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
> capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
> balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
> balcony!
>
> Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
> one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.
>
> 
>
> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
> it's bakin hot here!
>
> --
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Cotty
>
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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[David Mann]

Cool shot.

We'd had a very mild winter so far until a couple of days ago when the southern 
polar vortex sneezed.

Cheers,
Dave

On Jul 19, 2014, at 9:32 am, Steve Cottrell  wrote:

> Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
> latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
> capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
> balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
> balcony!
> 
> Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
> one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.
> 
> 
> 
> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
> it's bakin hot here!
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>  Cotty
> 
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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Ann Sanfedele]

Glad to see this link - it looks better than on facebook
I like the "tripod" you used too :-)

ann

On 7/18/2014 17:32, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
balcony!

Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.



Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
it's bakin hot here!



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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Richard Womer]

Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the
clouds. Was it really that purple color?

Rick
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
>
>> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
>> it's bakin hot here!
>
> Bakin' hot at 27C.
>
> Somebody pass me a hanky, please.
>
> Rick
>

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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Rick Womer]

On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
> it's bakin hot here!

Bakin' hot at 27C. 

Somebody pass me a hanky, please.

Rick


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Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Bob W-PDML]

Very nice, especially the way the cloud is lit.

I went to the Dennis Hopper exhibition after work today, and cycled home at 
about 9pm, all the time watching the lightning flashing in the dense black 
clouds in the east. Felt the occasional fat drop of rain, but no downpour. The 
whole thing was a magnificent sight, and when I was cycling along the river in 
Greenwich the walkway was lined with people taking photos of the lightning over 
the Dome, and each time there was a flash a great cheer went up from the 
passengers on the pleasure cruisers.

B

> On 18 Jul 2014, at 22:32, "Steve Cottrell"  wrote:
> 
> Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
> latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
> capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
> balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
> balcony!
> 
> Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
> one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.
> 
> 
> 
> Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
> it's bakin hot here!
> 
> 

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PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

[Steve Cottrell]

Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the
latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to
capture something half decent with the Fuji X-E1 and Pentax A*85/1.4
balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment
balcony!

Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures
one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode.



Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather -
it's bakin hot here!

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