Thumper

Had a lot of storms last month, so one night, I grabbed my camera and my tripod, and I posted up on the porch.    Caught some decent shots of God's fireworks.    Some of these were really close, and the thunder was so quick and so loud that I thought I may have soiled my drawers a couple of times.   Sure was fun though.

 

These were mostly 5-10 second exposures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(After this shot, I decided to head back into the house.  This one was close.  And loud).

 

Mind you, there are not fantastic shots, but I was aiming to more capture the actual strikes and bolts.   Next it is to post up in a great spot with a good foreground during the next thunderstorm.  (If I can muster up the courage to do it.)

 

 

So let's see your lightning pictures.

I have mine backed up 3 times.   I copy the pics off of my CF onto the desktop.   I do most of my post processing work from there.   When I am done, I will copy all of the pre and post files to an external Lacie drive.   At some point, usually once a week, I will back all of that up again on yet another external Lacie drive.   That may be a bit excessive, but I am less likely to lose images (and a lot of work) as I have in the past due to a HD crash.

Another option is to use Lightroom as a plug in to convert your files you can then send them to finish off the edit in Photoshop the problem then vanishes as you bypass camera raw totally

This is what I usually do.   I shoot all of my shots in RAW, then load them into PS through Lightroom.

A few shots from a recent trip to the zoo.


Ringtailed Lemur
Nikon D2Xs
Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6
f/7.6
1/250 sec
ISO 400


Tree Python
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 50mm
1/60 sec
f/1.8
ISO 200


The Clown
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6
f/5.6
1.250 sec
ISO 400



Fox
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 55-300mm @ 300mm
1/320sec
f/5.6
ISO 400



Yellow Python



The Old Man
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6
f/6.3
1/160 sec
ISO 400



Bear

That is a stunning shot!