Smoke on the Water Photo

Photographer’s Note

A fierce electrical storm rages across Changi, near the Singapore Airport. I was lucky enough to have my camera on me when I went cycling that afternoon, and stopped for a few minutes at a canal to try and snap a bolt or three.

The lightning was actually a reddish-orange colour and not very bright. In order to capture it I had to use a high ISO (1800 on this one I think).

The result was a lot of noise, but unfortunately there was no way around it even with long exposures.

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Karyn674 (55) 2009-04-28 4:05

You managed to capture the lightning bolt sucessfully!
Good pov and dof
Great composition
Regards
Karen

mikeyeats (375) 2009-04-28 4:22

Greg,
Excellent picture,you caught the storm well, lovley and sharp, the high ISO does not seem to have caused much of a problem in this size picture. You can just feel and smell the rain on its way.
All the best
Mike

vibgyor (33) 2009-04-28 4:41 [Comment]

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SampraS (617) 2009-04-28 4:55

Nice capture!

Impressive lightnings

regards
Adam

Galoy (262) 2009-04-28 10:52

Uno de los mayores méritos de una fotografía es la oportunidad y esta foto destaca fundamentalmente por ello.
Felicitaciones

Galoy

photoray (1188) 2009-05-28 17:34

Hi Greg,
You managed to capture an excellent lightning show including interesting foreground. Much harder to accomplish than one would think, or at least I know from my own attempts.

Good job,
RAy