est

Agreed! It looks quite interesting, but it's a bit small for a closer inspection. Do you not have a slightly larger copy of this?

I know... it took me forever to get the composition right (she was getting really bored by then...), and this great gust of wind came along, and messed it up for me. Still, this was the first time I actually got to use my camera properly (after having received it for my birthday...), and I was really please with the outcome of the whole film...

it's like a magic-eye picture! ;o)

excellent! thanks a lot! that looks much better! :o)

 

Est

hhmmm... I might be doing something wrong, but I can't get the image you posted to look normal. It's all blurred... oh well. but to answer your question, yes we were expecting this sort of weather. See summer in Hungary tends to be quite stormy, especially towards mid-August. We are very lucky from a lightning-photography point of view, that we have a little house on the south coast of this big lake, and the storms tend to be on the northern coast, because it's more hilly, and the various traveling air fronts have to rise, so you get a lot of precipitation. The other side is also about 5km away, so often you can watch the most amazing storms from the dry comfort of the southern shore, where it's still 30-odd degrees. Perfect if you don't want to get your equipment wet. So we basically set up a tripod, set the camera on B, and waited for lightning to strike. We messed about with the aperture size, so sometimes we could wait for several lightning strikes, before we closed the shutter, so a lot of the pictures we have (on about three rolls of film from one night...), actually look really threatening.

 

The only problem is, as you pointed out, that in the dark, it was difficult to see if we had the camera horizontally or not, and as it's turned out, we obviously didn't... oh well, better luck next time.

 

est