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Aquila pronounced AK-weh-lah, uh-KWILL-uh or even a-kee-laa, means eagle in Latin. Just like the eagle, this blog is my “bird’s eye view” on situations or topics that I happen to come across in my life.

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Lightning In December

// December 28th, 2005 // Photos // 1,928 views

Tonight’s rainfall presented a perfect opportunity to test the camera again – this time taking pictures of one of my favourite subjects – Lightning.

See some previous shots during the year here, here and here.

PS: As usual, click through for higher resolution pics and more detail on the camera settings.

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8 Responses to “Lightning In December”

1. tripeak says:

   2005/12/29 at 09:44

   Hey dude. Congrats on the new camera… these pics are awesome! – It must have taken you a while to get them just right. Anyway, you should go open a flickr.com account where you can post these.
2. tripeak says:

   2005/12/29 at 09:48

   err… ignore the flickr account comment. LOL
3. Jacqueline says:

   2005/12/30 at 23:27

   Beautiful pictures!! Hope you don´t mind I linked your post to mine to compare the wonderful weather conditions. Happy New Year to you and yours!
4. boerseun says:

   2005/12/30 at 23:53

   Those are very good pictures. How did you time it to capture the lightning strikes?
   What was your shutter speed / exposure time settings?
5. Aquila says:

   2006/01/02 at 00:19

   hehe thanks Tripeak – yeah the cam rocks big time – still trying to figure all the settings out. Lol @ flickr account.

   Jacqueline – no probs at all, thanks for the link. Brilliant pics of the snow – Wish it would snow here so we can experience the beauty as well.

   Boerseun – a lot of trial and error – not to go into too much detail (otherwise I would be boring the living daylights out of everyone) it so happens that this particular time, the sky would light up first and then the thunder would strike – so I had the shutter pressed half way down, waiting for the sky to light up, and then press down fully to take the pic. This was of course a good test of my reflexes too (hehe).

   If you click on the link for each pic and then on properties – the flickr page will give you more details on the settings – but mostly it seemed as though a 1 second exposure, iso speed of 100 and aperture setting of f/5.6 did the trick. Still – a bit of trial and error as I took around 50 pics and got 4 really good ones and some 4/5 other ones that are okay.
6. Aquila says:

   2006/01/02 at 00:52

   Oh yeah – tripeak – brilliant pics you have on flickr dude – much respek.
7. tripeak says:

   2006/01/03 at 10:41

   Thx Aquila oh… and tnx for adding me to yr sidebar. (I’ll do the same once my redesign is up)