j.b._ritchie 0 Posted September 27, 2001 I've been trying to figure how to get lightning shots, how did you do it? great shot. Link to comment
laura_maish 0 Posted September 27, 2001 Lightning storms are rare in San Francicso so I jumped on this opportunity Monday night. Link to comment
g._patrick_barr 0 Posted September 27, 2001 Best photo I can remember of the Bay Bridge, which is less photographed than the famous Golden Gate. Is this shot taken from the Oakland side, or the SF side? My compliments! Link to comment
tonys 0 Posted September 27, 2001 Excellent shot Laura. You managed to place a lot of "favorites" in this shot of yours; cityscapes, sunsets, night scenes, lightnings and last but not least, good taste. Bravo! Link to comment
nelson_soares 0 Posted September 28, 2001 The buildings ,the bridge and the sky are brilliantly lighted.Great work!!! Link to comment
daniel_childs 0 Posted September 28, 2001 one of the best photos i've ever seen. lighting in foreground, bridge, and lighting all incredible. Link to comment
isaac sibson 0 Posted September 28, 2001 Wow. This is tremendously good work! Excellent!!! Link to comment
jdsuttonphotography 0 Posted September 29, 2001 what a wonderful shot; even though a part of me wonders if it is real or created digitally, the end result is spectacular, and I congratulate you on that. What a great bit of luck or good planning to be in that location at that time; I'd be interested to know which it was - never been able to get a lightning shot. Anyway, good shooting, and planning. Link to comment
galan 0 Posted September 29, 2001 I don't care how many times this bridge has been photographed, someone always finds an interesting approach. Very well done - a lot of power and suspense. Link to comment
oneiromancer 0 Posted September 29, 2001 Lightning laces the sky...good photo. I like how the moon is peaking out from underneath the bridge. Link to comment
jason neymeyer 0 Posted September 29, 2001 Great shot, one question. With a shutter speed of only 1/5 sec, how did you manage to catch a bolt of lightning? You must have been either very lucky, or used a longer exposure. Or did you use some kind of automatic trigger? Even if Jim is right, and there is some digital hocus-pocus (which doesn't really bother me, photography is art IMHO), it's beautiful. Link to comment
constantine_stewart 0 Posted September 29, 2001 An absolutely beautiful photograph. The colors are wonderful as well as the composition. Link to comment
laura_maish 0 Posted September 29, 2001 There was no digital 'hocus pocus' here. This is an apparently very rare horizontal lightning bolt going down the length of the SF Bay. I snapped around 30 images and got lucky with this one. I noticed that the flashes seemed to last about 1 sec. By keeping the trigger depressed half way while watching the skies, I reacted at the slightest hint of light. A lucky shot? Yes. But it is the real McCoy. Link to comment
ingo_rammer 0 Posted September 29, 2001 wow .. absolutely stunning ... and now that you confirmed that it's 100% photo and not a digital manipulation I only can show greatest respect ... Link to comment
rob_mccool 0 Posted October 2, 2001 i thought this was a digital creation until i read your statement that it wasn't. what luck! i have chased storms and not gotten anything close. Link to comment
bill storage 0 Posted October 2, 2001 I can attest to that shot's authenticity, since I was standing next to her when she got it. She nearly broke my eardrum screaming when she saw that come up on the LCD. The see-flash/click approach actually seems to work pretty well. I got a few decent shots that night, but nothing like that mega-bolt! Link to comment
lyndon 0 Posted October 2, 2001 And to think after watching a number of these horizontal bolts on my drive home up 101 from work, I didn't go out with my camera because I thought the storm had passed...! A unique opportunity missed : ( Where was this shot taken exactly? At first, it looks like it was shot from Potrero Hill but I can't make out Pac Bell Park in the foreground. Was it taken from the downtown side and the image flipped horizontally by any chance? Laura, you have an absolute beautu of a shot and I'm deeply envious : ) Link to comment
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