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Was out randomly for a weekly meetup with a mate last night. Lightning started coming down and opportunity knocked. Ending up setting the 1D2 up with the 17-40 doing continuous shots for a few hours in the rain - got reeeealy lucky twice.

The first image will run in tommorow's Sunday Mail


Canon EOS1DMkII, 17-40/4L at 17mm ISO100 f/22 2.5s


Canon EOS1DMkII, 17-40/4L at 19mm ISO100 f/5.6 3.2s

nothing random about those shots - right place, right time, right photographer... Well done, those are some great shots - you deserve to be proud of the coverage they will get!

The top shot is a top shot! Well done!

The first shot! amazing
All of it, including the pink clouds with lightning and foreground, great

Ronza - did you send the picture to them, or are you working for them?

edit: just read the caption that (AdelaideNow readers Nick Andrew and Ronnie Ling took this photograph of last night's storm from the Gazebo at Elder Park. / Sunday Mail (SA)) So, a reader

Ronza, good job!!! Here are two I got from down at the port..

hey ronza

great work

happy new year

Excellent result and congratulations!

Alex

adam wrote:edit: just read the caption that (AdelaideNow readers Nick Andrew and Ronnie Ling took this photograph of last night's storm from the Gazebo at Elder Park. / Sunday Mail (SA)) So, a reader

Yeah, I don't mind them cropping it but the entire "reader" thing is toooo far I had the idea of putting it in for the Channel 10 news but another photographer said something about putting them into the Advertiser as well. Ended up dropping into the Waymouth Street office and downloading the images off my camera with one of the staff photographers and the image editor (they use Photoshop 5)

Big V; excellent job on the shots - what was your method of getting them?

Ronza, used the 30D and 17-85mm lens, shot at the 17mm end 200 ISO, f10, 30 second exposure

Ronza, Job well done mate good to see the shots making the paper as these are great shots and such a nice place to get them with the back drop with the Torrens and Uni bridge etc.. well done.

Ronza

I think these are both great captures of the lightning, but I think you've detracted from the power of the lightning by the highly saturated treatment you've given both images. While these are nice colours I've never seen the sky that purple/red or that intense a blue. By contrast the shots later down by Big V have greater impact, not because he's captured the lightning better, but because the eye is more drawn to the white hot flash of light rather than the intense colours in your versions.

Of course that's just my view (and I AM suitably envious that you got great lightning in the image - something I've never managed to achieve)

Congrats on getting published too.

that is amazing! i have tried 100's of times with my old fuji to get lightening! never happened, tonioght ur storm is headed our way, i will be ready and waiting with the 400D
Those shots really are priceless
I bow to u o god of amazingness

stubbsy wrote:Ronza

I think these are both great captures of the lightning, but I think you've detracted from the power of the lightning by the highly saturated treatment you've given both images. While these are nice colours I've never seen the sky that purple/red or that intense a blue. By contrast the shots later down by Big V have greater impact, not because he's captured the lightning better, but because the eye is more drawn to the white hot flash of light rather than the intense colours in your versions.

Thanks for the feedback Peter - I actually hadn't seen the images on my own (calibrated) screen until this afternoon post-submission. All the editing was done in conjunction with my mate on his PC equipment. Not keen to open the Pandora's box but; both images were sharpened and adjusted for CA around the bolts. The second image went through much less processing than most of my normal images - a slight adjustment in the Auto White Balance to be less of a magenta and a small luminance adjustment in the blues to emphasise the light fall off from the lightning.

The first image was much more involved, my head served as an accidental (and very much unintentional) ND filter on the corner while cleaning the raindrops off the front. My spiky hair had to be cloned out from the top right just above the lightning. An excellent sunset (main drive to actually head down to the Torrens) but poetic use of the Contrast and Vibrance slider may* have been exercised. Ideally, the first image should depict a sunset and a thunderstorm - it was taken at 8.37PM; the sunset was at 8.32PM.

*may = probably was

Amazing shots from both Ronza and Big V, I love the colour in the first city pic, but both of you picked great locations with excellent scenery.
I was going to start a new new post of my own but might aswell join you guys and show a couple I got from up in the hills during the night.

Blardy hell - that second photo just screams power!

Great shots Ronza. Well done.

Cheers, Mick

What utterly unbelievable shots!

Great timing, great colours, great saturation, sharpness.....

I could waffle on, but just accept my congratulations!

Well done on getting the shot and getting published!

Fantastic efforts by all phots in this thread. Well done to Ronza for getting published. I like the extra saturation in the pics.

Wonderful colours in that first shot Ron and congrats on getting it published.

For sense of power (particularly the starting node in the top right of frame really gives it impact but for visual impact and visual feast I see why the Sunday mail chose the first. Great images both of them Ronza.
cheers
marco

Strike me pink, we have some serious good lightning images in this thread. Great work Ronza. I didn't know that Adelaide got storms like this!

Ozi

I'll add a few extra shots from the same night. I took these near Nildottie on the Murray River during a stormchase between Blanchetown & Murray Bridge.

What a night!

... and a couple more

:O

Stargazer.... ABSOLUTLEY FANTASTIC shots, I was quite proud of what I had gotten that night until I just saw what you got, unbelievable, great shots

Pual,some big hits in there!!!