Storm Chasing

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Who loves storm chasing? Australia gets a lot of supercell thunderstorms and it used to be a pastime of mine when I lived there. Now that we live on a boat I prefer to keep the storms a little further away lol.

This is a shot I took over over the Watagan mountains in a remote forested wilderness area in New South Wales, Australia.

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Robert Downie
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What kind of shutter speed would you use on lightning photos?
Beautiful shot.

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I try and keep it less than 5 seconds; and then stack. Any longer you loose too much definition in the cloud bank.

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Wow, that's stunning! Where I am, we get some wild storms, but I've never seen lightening on the ocean like this. Incredible shot and I love it.

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one exposure?

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It is three short exposures stacked; the strikes were about 5 seconds apart. But I find that gives me better cloud definition than taking long (60 second exposures) which blur the storm front.

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clouds usually look better on shorter exposures but then when the lightning strikes in the middle of shorter exposures it is frustrating :D

this looks like it was a light show so not that much chance of missing.

Now thinking how crazy are the lightning storms on a boat? :)

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Lightning storms on a boat are not fun; when your mast is the tallest thing in the sea. Just need to hang next to someone who has a bigger boat than you lol

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