Wow awesome capture!! 2nd ones my fav.

 

wow, that is awesome lighting photo

 

For the lightning pictures, what settings did you use? The couple times I tried it, if I was quick enough to get the lightning, The pictures didnt turn out right.

 

obviously set up a tripod....handheld is next to impossible
personally i set it up shutter to bulb and use my remote. i open for about 30-45 secs depending on how frequent the lightning is. Once i see a huge strike i close and then reopen for another
Depending on the lightning you want to set our F stop to about 7-9 to start off...if the lightning is really bright go up to about 16. if its dim go down to about 4. Its kinda trial and error. i was set around 7.1 when i got these and i missed a huge bolt because it was just too bright

oh and be safe, i shot these from my 2nd floor bathtub haha

 

Hhaha nice. Pretty much what I did. I'll post mine from Afghanistan when I'm on computer. Really fun though cause you like only see it for a split sec. But your camera captures it idk blew my mind when I first did it.

 

Bunch of new stuff from Canon was announced recently. 60D anyone? How about 8-15 f/4L fisheye zoom? Pretty crazy stuff.

I'm sort of annoyed that Canon is focusing too heavily on video. I bought a DSLR for pictures, not video. If I wanted to make movies, I'd buy a video camera.

 

Fisheye zoom?? Sounds interesting. I wonder at full zoom will it look less like a fisheye?
I must say I was messing with the canon 7d in bestbuy today and love the colors I get with. Really confused me looking for the buttons but made me want a canon again.
I really need to find someone or place nearby that has a d700 or d3 to see if I like it better than canon.

 

6 hour drive... killin time...

 

The sky was very clear tonight.

 

heres the lighting ones i did from afghanistan. really dusty out there.






and a c-130 for good measure.

 

didnt i run into you in afghanistan? lol

 

In fact you did. Hahaha. Good thing you had your computer up cause that's how I knew who you were. Small world hahaha

 

what are the chances that 2 people from this thread run into each other at a REMOTE airfield in Afghanistan. not even one of the big bases. that was pretty cool.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/big_hindu/4933800822/

 

awesome shots putting them on my weather blog http://wbotd.tumblr.com

 

couple of my dogs today

 

lol, the last one looks miserable.

 

this guy did some high speed photography...check it out...cool stuff
http://www.lex-augusteijn.nl/Gallery...eed/index.html

 

yea he got his ***** removed a couple days ago...so he is sad

 

dropping some coin on some new equipment today. Woot!