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Hi,

My wife and I have finally moved into our new house !! Yipee!

Been here for almost 2 weeks and finally got a little bit of storm action. Quite a way off and nothing too spectacular, but as you can see from the images the covered deck I'm shooting from is set up to be a front row seat when we get a solid lightning show.

critique welcome...








cheers,

Fantastic shots Craig.
You have a great view, I know where to come to practice my storm photography

I'd be inclined to crop out suburbia and just leave the silhouettes of the hills. For some reason I don't really like to see houses and lighting from suburbs in a lightning shot. However I don't mind seeing cities and their lighting, think their having been a few great shots of lightning cracking over skyscrapers.

congrats on moving into the new house!!

the shots are wonderful....

cheers

Nice work Craig, and a great view from your new place!

Wow! I love those clouds! Love the colour of the lightning in #3.

I like the last one best but tend to agree with Kipper in maybe some judicious cropping out civilization would benefit

Craig - electricity from nature and man-made - all three pics are a tribute to you and your superb location

Craig mate! Great shots, I particularly like no. 3 too! Must be a great feeling settling into the new home!! Well done

some nice shots here.

I think there is enough hold the viewers interest in the clouds /lightning
so I agree that you could have a look at a pano crop and remove suburbia.

Steve

Wow, looks like your new house is going to be a great asset to youre photo taking.

Some good shots there already.

Enjoy your new house

MATT

Congrats on the new place, Craig.
Hope you'll have more time for photography now!

Beautiful shots Craig. Thanks for sharing them. I think the cropping is just fine as it stands: The patch of suburbia throws the majesty of the lightning into proportion. Well done!

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Here is the cropped version as a few have suggested .... what are your thoughts .... depending on what I was using the image for I still perfer the one with the foregroung if for nothing else but the contrast of power



Cheers,

Craig,
I think I prefer the uncropped version however this one is still very powerful as it is (cropped). What a difference though. The colours in the sky from the illuminating lightning strike is great...quite ery and powerful!!

shucks

there are a heap of raging storms around but these are exceptional. I like the colours and in the clouds the most.

i like the uncropped version.... gives a better idea of the size of the storm.

cheers

Wow! What a fantastic view you have! These lightning images are wonderful with the CG's (cloud to ground) and the CC's lighting up the cloud structure. Beautiful! Mother nature at her most powerful!

I prefer the uncropped version too . Do you think you might be able to send some storms down my way? I'm getting a little bored with photographing sunsets!

Congrats on the new house Craig, I was wondering about your missing presence on these forums for a while there...

Great set of shots - I like how you've made them different, colour cast wise. There still a bit of what looks like flaring in the bottom left on the cropped version.

Lightning photos used to impress me a great deal, but lately having felt it's wrath upon our house, I can't say it's my favouritest subject ATM.

Wow Craig, that first shot in particular is a doozy (ie that means really good)