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Tubaryan12
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Chuck(G)
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As I understand it, one simply stops down and opens the shutter on the camera until a few strikes have been recorded. Relatively easy with a film camera.Boanerges wrote:It surely does make a terrific wallpaper. I surmise that it is not easy to get this kind of a photo. Maybe one of the photo geniuses on TubeNet can share theoretically how it is done - I certainly don't know how - I'm too intellectually challenged at this stage in life...
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Rick Denney
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Not too hard with good digital cameras, either, and they provide the advantage of knowing what you got.Chuck(G) wrote:As I understand it, one simply stops down and opens the shutter on the camera until a few strikes have been recorded. Relatively easy with a film camera.
The challenge is being in the right place at the right time, without yourself being at risk or getting the camera soaked. The photographer in this case was standing on a hill in a thunderstorm--not unrisky behavior.
Rick "noting the element of luck" Denney