n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Got home from work and the sky wasn't looking too friendly. Around 7pm we started to hear thunder in the distance and by 7:30 it was flashing pretty regularly and the sky was looking nasty. That picture doesn't really tell the story very well since it's a 5 second exposure. This is a little better, just 10 minutes later, stopped way down. The sky was routinely lighting up but I was unable to really capture that. 5 minutes later it started to get really interesting. A crop of the last one Shortly thereafter my wife made it clear that I should get inside. Good thing she did since within minutes the sky opened up and it absolutely poured for 15 minutes or so. Now if I could find a program that would let me stitch 20 or so jpgs into a short movie I'd upload a sequence of 10 second exposures that I took. I tried iMovie but it'll only let me go down to .3 seconds which isn't fast enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VPI Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Great pictures Nate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Great pictures Nate. X2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 That's quite impressive, so what project was Team Arcy Sparky working on when this happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomana Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Very cool pictures, Nate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beefy Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Great pics! Is that from Bill? He is scheduled to hit us late Sunday...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Thanks for the compliments, it was pretty wild to see it live. And no, I don't think that's Bill, just typical summer T-storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bperboy Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Nate, good stuff.. I think maybe to get a better stop motion sequence, copy each photo like 3-5 times and then use that for the video. Should give you more raw photos so the video sequence lasts longer. I'm not sure exactly how you were going about getting it to do stop-motion, but a quick Google turned up this. Maybe it'll help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Awesome pics, Nate.Now if I could find a program that would let me stitch 20 or so jpgs into a short movie I'd upload a sequence of 10 second exposures that I took. I tried iMovie but it'll only let me go down to .3 seconds which isn't fast enough.Send them to Monsieur Samich, he can do it. Chris -- I hope you don't mind me volunteering you, but I'd really like to see this. Mother Nature is my favorite artist, and lightning is one of my favorite of her works of art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 I found a similar tutorial for making the movie in iMovie and the bottom line is that :03 is too slow, I need something in the :01 range which is too low. And making the sequence last longer won't help since the frame rate will actually be slower by making identical frames out of the same image. Thankfully a bit better googling by me turned up a freeware program called FramebyFrame which is pretty cool and easy to use. I've made the little 2 second movie and uploaded it to youtube. It's listed as "processing" so I'll check either later or tomorrow morning to see if it goes live. edit - unfortunately Peter there's no lightning in the video, just the clouds rolling by over a period of about 10 minutes (compressed into 2 seconds). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Here, let's see if this works. edit - it's only playing about half the sequence, but you get the idea of how fast stuff was going by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bperboy Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 ^^ That's a pretty fantastic sequence! Too bad there wasn't time to get more images.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Works for me, looks like the opening sequence for a Top Gear review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 ^^ That's a pretty fantastic sequence! Too bad there wasn't time to get more images.. Well, I wasn't really planning on doing that at all. I was just messing around trying to catch the ever-illusive bolt of lightning, I have a thing for lightning. It wasn't until I was scrolling through the images on my laptop that I had the idea to string them together. It was just kind of lucky that I had that many shot at the same aperture/shutter so they fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bperboy Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Well, I wasn't really planning on doing that at all. I was just messing around trying to catch the ever-illusive bolt of lightning, I have a thing for lightning. It wasn't until I was scrolling through the images on my laptop that I had the idea to string them together. It was just kind of lucky that I had that many shot at the same aperture/shutter so they fit. Now that you've done it, might keep an eye out for similar situations. I wonder if there's an easy way to set and forget the camera on tripod, so you wouldn't have to keep snapping the shutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFF Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Remastered these: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 edit - unfortunately Peter there's no lightning in the video, just the clouds rolling by over a period of about 10 minutes (compressed into 2 seconds).Well, lightning is just one of my favorites -- dark clouds rolling by is another. Hawt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron_Dreamer Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Snorkled along the North Shore of Oahu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 moar pitchers damit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Out at my parents' summer place. Jack awoke at the asscrack of dawn. So he and I drove into town to get bagels, coffee, and most important, chocolate milk. En route we saw roughly 30 wild turkeys, which are thriving out here since the red foxes mysteriously disappeared. Saw a bunch of deer, too. And some ducks. All good for a city kid. Now we are chilling, watching some Blue's Clues. I like having a son. And I like coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimless1 Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 I like having a son. Having children, and now grandchildren, is my greatest pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Breakfast of champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 ^Good lord those are adorable children. Jack had a black & white cookie for dinner last night. I just partially fixed my parents' doorbell. It hadn't worked at all. Now it "dings," but it doesn't "dong." I still feel manly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Did you pick up a third on vacation Stretch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 There's a promotion right now. Have two, get one free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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