The World Is Burning (10 pics)

[killerzzz]

EDIT: The pictures are now in link form because of the move.

A few days ago, we had a beautiful sunset. That same evening, we had a violent storm. Black clouds merged with the blood-red of the dimming sky, and it seem as if the world was on fire, burning in the distance, spewing black fumes in great torrents. Crimson flashes of lightning were war fought in the heavens that bled through the smoke of a battle we mortals could never understand.

It was a fascinating sight.

I dicided I would share it on camera. Unfortunately, it became less red, but you get the idea, sortof. The first picture, which was ruined by having the 'flash' on, actually gave a better idea of how deep and dark that red was; so I kept it.

Keep in mind, everything was alot redder and impressive than they look in pictures.

The Sky and The Earth Burn
One
Two
Three
Four
Five

The Blackness Reaches For Us
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten


Once again, I wish I'd had time to take more pictures before it was over. I really wish I coulda had one of the lightning.

Anyhow, I thought I would give you all a flip of my happy cloud pictures. ;D Whoa!, especially that intro text I just gave. Creepy.

Killerzzz

[LaFille]

Cool skies, and cool pictures; especially the second, fourth and two last ones. In the second one from the bottom, the clouds look like fingers about to grip.

Oh and these clouds don't look so happy to me. That would more be... PMS-mode clouds, like. ;D

And there you got something to keep you busy next time you have a storm that messes the electricity: trying to photograph lightnings! But seriously, if you have a good point of view for it, a tripod and a camera that you can adjust settings manually, I'm quite sure it would be possible to get something potent with lightnings and without too much pain, especially at night...

[Galadriel]

Wow! Great pics Killerzzz!! We never had a thunderstorm as dark and red as you showed us. These pictures reminds me of War of the Worlds, they really do.
And indeed, with a tripod you can try to catch lightning if you're up for it! ;D

[Venom65437]

Hey Killerzzz, those are some awesome pictures you have there!

[killerzzz]

Thanks guys! ;D

I'm not usually much of a photographer, but I got myself a digital camera for the trip I went on a few weeks ago.
Now, whenever I see something cool, I run for the camera and start clicking. O.O!

You should see how many I took that didn't turn out. They double the ones I showed.

The problem for me with lightning is that its so darn fast and random! Also, my reflexes are useless.

We never had a thunderstorm as dark and red as you showed us.

As far as I can remember, neither have we, Gal. ;D This was something different.

Hey, wait a sec... Who is that person standing in the distance on the left side of pics 1, 2 and 4?

Killerzzz

[LaFille]

With a camera that you can set the ISO sensitivity, apperture and shutter speed manually and with a tripod, you wouldn't have to rely on reflexes to catch a lightning, just a little of luck. When you have a storm at night, you set your camera on a tripod and adjust the apperture at a small value (which gives a big depth of field), the ISO sensitivity at a low value (to reduce the sensitivity to the light) and the shutter speet at a long time value, the more extreme you can have these and get a potent image; each camera reacts pretty differently, so you would have to test a bit with yours to know what does.

Anyway, what that way does is that it makes the picture being taken very slowly, the light "imprinting" the picture even more gradually; since your picture is taken over several seconds, you have much more chances to get one or even several on your picture during this laps of time and since the lightning's brightness intensity is very high, even if it only takes a small fraction of seconds to happen while your cam takes the long-time picture it will appear neatly on the picture, with the rest of the elements, less bright but getting caught in the picture for a long time, appearing well-defined as well. The only important thing is not to move the camera or tripod during such poses, as it becomes blurry with nothing.

This technique is a bit the same to get pro-looking photos of fireworks, citiscapes at night, etc., too. Some cameras have settings or a device that allows to leave the shutter open at will, too, which is even better; with that you leave it open as long as you want and just hide the lens with a black cardboard that you remove at times when there are lightnings to get these on your picture.

[killerzzz]

O.O?
Cam-er-a? :0

Well, Fille, you seem to have your fair share of knowledge on photography. ;D

I'll defenantly try that the next time we get a good storm over here. Unfortunately, thunderstorm season is almost over: autumn is near, and winter comes after.

So those lightning pics might come in a year or so.

Killerzzz

[Alrik]

I've seen simila things, yet few, over the years of my life.

Edit: I still hate typos.

[LaFille]

Heh, you can always say it's your accent, Alrik... ;D

For what is of photo, I like to try these kinds of things, though I'm still a long way from pro with the tool.Llightning storms like that I never tried yet, but I did try fireworks with that technique and a black cardboard. It only gave ok shots, though, as every time I messed on something, but at least I know it works; and who knows, one day, maybe will the trophy be there (lightning or fireworks, whatever). I tried to find one of these fireworks shots but they must be on discs somewhere so I'll try to find and post it a little later. And of course, I want to see what you get if you try it.

[Alrik]

lafille said:

Heh, you can always say it's your accent, Alrik... ;D

Yes, ;D , but I just don't like that line saying "last edit".
I don't quite know, but it makes me ... imperfect. ... ;D

[Galadriel]

alrik said:

lafille said:

Heh, you can always say it's your accent, Alrik... ;D

Yes, ;D , but I just don't like that line saying "last edit".
I don't quite know, but it makes me ... imperfect. ... ;D

Lol Alrik, I prefer people who are not perfect.

[LaFille]

alrik said:

lafille said:

Heh, you can always say it's your accent, Alrik... ;D

Yes, ;D , but I just don't like that line saying "last edit".
I don't quite know, but it makes me ... imperfect. ... ;D

But in that case, there's always the "inadvertantly clicked on" excuse that may put a balm on this. ;D

Sorry for the lateness and silence, guys; I'm in computer changing, aamong else.