from this evening 3-11-08

WOW

sweet,

my boat comes up well at night.



nice pics mate

Unreal pics, we are only just getting the rumbles here now on the Sunshine Coast

hope we are not in for another big storm like that one

HC, those pics are great...will have to get some lessons in not only vulcans but photography from you as well.

Good shots HC. Some power in those thunder bolts. It was quite spectacular from our place, the sky was fully lit for what seemed like 10 seconds at a time.

Did you guys get out at all before it hit?

howdy. yeah had a great sail in the afternoons tues, wed and today. been a great week hey!

that was one seriously over charged cloud i like to point the camera at that boat's mast coz i reckon one day its gonna cop it

Hey HC great photo's. I've been having a go at some of these wild nights but not getting good results, nowhere like yours. How about sharing some of your secrets, like what timing and settings are you using (if you don't mind me asking)

Cheers!!

Hi hc,

was it really good, the whole week? Cannot believe it. You mentioned that seabreeze sucks in case of northerly. Can you post the right link?

Thanks

howdy trauma - www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ17500.txt

i've found for some reason the bom does a more accurate job of predicting strength of northerlies for the gc but it's still pretty general, unfortunately they aint so good for winter and southerlies.

have a lok at www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/map.shtml the nsw northern rivers forecast too. if they getting an arvo breeze and it's sunny on the gc then we usually get one too. if you take an average of all the forecasts u get something thats remotely close

hi greg. i got a couple of slr's and i point them in different directions on tripods with a 15 sec shutter @ iso 200 and an intervelometer plugged into the remote socket so i can tell them to re shoot every 10 seconds. i've found it gives the sensor time to cool off and the noise seems to drop a bit as a result (not that it matters much at iso 200). the deck lights and the lightning = same brightness at about a 15 second exposure. i just manually focus the lenses to something about 500m away and set iris to around f7. the lenses are 10mm and 14mm on each cam so they got pretty deep depth of field and sharpness at f7-ish

Very interesting hc. Thank you for that!

Thanks HC, I'll have a go at deciphering that and give it a go in the next episode of Bris Storms 2008.