This evening's thunderstorm

[SydneyBristow]

As seen from my yard in PG County...

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/vindictiveimmunity/Thunderstorm%20April%2006/100_1162.jpg


And more can be found here:Thunderstorm (http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a90/vindictiveimmunity/Thunderstorm%20April%2006/)

[BPMninja]

I was in a classroom from 5:30 to about 10...I didn't even know it was raining. :sadblue:

[Utopium]

Make: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model: KODAK CX7430 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Exposure time: 1/2 s
F-number: f/2.7
Exposure program: Normal program
Exposure bias value: 0.00 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
Scene capture type: Night scene
Gain control: Low gain up

The CX7430 doesn't seem to report ISO values but it may be pretty high since it says it has the low gain up. Wouldn't hurt to crank up the ISO manually to 400. Turn the flash off, it does nothing to light up the sky and only creates spots reflected off the rain. At a half second exposure time you will definitely want to put the camera on a tripod if you don't want the pictures to look blurry. Any small cheap one will do just fine. If you don't have a tripod, just prop the camera against something firm so it doesn't move when you take the shot. Not much else you can do on your camera since it doesn't have much for manual control.

Here is a good article on how to keep a camera stable without a tripod: http://www.nicholsonprints.com/Articles/tripodsubstitution.htm

I usually wouldn't make comments on other peoples pictures like this, but I saw your post in the other thread and thought I would give a few tips to help out.

[Utopium]

I was in a classroom from 5:30 to about 10...I didn't even know it was raining. :sadblue:

It came through really quick. They had tornado warnings anounced.

[infectedskazi]

i was at work when it started, the sky was almost pitch black, however i cant complain cuz it kept my restaurant very slow, which made my night cuz i wasnt in the mood to run around all night and i love thunderstorms

[zartan]

check out the storm moving across DC - this is from my rooftop at 2nd st nw showing the front line of the storm as it went from east to west. i've rarely seen such a well-organized storm with such a straight front move through this area.

[BPMninja]

It came through really quick. They had tornado warnings anounced.

Yeah, my teacher actually left early because of it, but I had a project to work on and right now my computer at home is being mean and not letting me work with anything CS2 at home...so I get to depend on the computer lab for right now.

I *can't* wait to get my Mac Book Pro.

My brother apparently chilled outside on our porch and watched the storm though, said it was awesome and was going to attempt to use my camera to take pictures, but didn't want to risk my wrath if he broke it.

[Jungle Jessi]

the storm scared the crap out of me.

mostly because i went home after work and the sky was beautiful. i ran inside and changed, and then ran back out to go pick up a friend. i got about 5 minutes down the road and then noticed in the side mirror that the sky behind me, where i had JUST come from, was completely black. well except for when there would be a nasty looking lightning bolt.

so i drove about 10 more minutes down veirs mill to get my friend. i run in his house and tell him that we have to hurry because there is a deathstorm on the way. he looks out his window and sees blue sky and calls me crazy. so i pull him outside and show him that while everything to our right was blue and pretty everything to our left looked like it was being eaten by the nothing.

needless to say the drive home sucked ass. the sky was that weird yellow color that i've only seen a couple of other times, and each of those times proved to be catastophic. and the raindrops that were hitting my windsheild were fucking HUGE. mos def a white knuckle drive the whole way...

[Funshine]

I was trying to head up to the Top of the World to get it, but by the time I got up there the storm was pretty bad.

Glad to see someone else caught pics tho!

[Alexis]

I saw it from my balcony on the 20th floor.

That was a sight to behold.

[zartan]

the picture i attached doesn't do it justice but the line of clouds moving across the sky was arrow straight. crazy. i saw it on the wusa9.com radar coming in but didn't expect it to be that straight. it was like a curtain getting pulled across the sky.

i was supposed to fly out of reagan last night at 8PM but my meettings got cancelled. thank god, would not have been fun flying through there in a small jet.

[LilLemur416]

I have a couple of pictures as well, but they're on my computer at home & I still don't have it hooked up to the internet... Hopefully tonight & then I'll post them

[SydneyBristow]

Make: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model: KODAK CX7430 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Exposure time: 1/2 s
F-number: f/2.7
Exposure program: Normal program
Exposure bias value: 0.00 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
Scene capture type: Night scene
Gain control: Low gain up

The CX7430 doesn't seem to report ISO values but it may be pretty high since it says it has the low gain up. Wouldn't hurt to crank up the ISO manually to 400. Turn the flash off, it does nothing to light up the sky and only creates spots reflected off the rain. At a half second exposure time you will definitely want to put the camera on a tripod if you don't want the pictures to look blurry. Any small cheap one will do just fine. If you don't have a tripod, just prop the camera against something firm so it doesn't move when you take the shot. Not much else you can do on your camera since it doesn't have much for manual control.

Here is a good article on how to keep a camera stable without a tripod: http://www.nicholsonprints.com/Articles/tripodsubstitution.htm

I usually wouldn't make comments on other peoples pictures like this, but I saw your post in the other thread and thought I would give a few tips to help out.


Thank you so much for the tips. I have 2 tripods. And I had another, but lower model kodak I just gave away. Once I get better on this, I could possibly think about investing in a better make and model.

But I am definitely using these tips next storm. And testing out more of the settings on other subjects.

[mouse]

yay for first of the season.

rawkpance.

[Terry85]

Wow....after looking at the pics, I can't believe I slept through that......

[cataclysmic love]

It was hailing! Luckily I have a chilvarous boyfriend who brought the car to the front of the store!

[EmmaK]

the storm scared the crap out of me.

mostly because i went home after work and the sky was beautiful. i ran inside and changed, and then ran back out to go pick up a friend. i got about 5 minutes down the road and then noticed in the side mirror that the sky behind me, where i had JUST come from, was completely black. well except for when there would be a nasty looking lightning bolt.

so i drove about 10 more minutes down veirs mill to get my friend. i run in his house and tell him that we have to hurry because there is a deathstorm on the way. he looks out his window and sees blue sky and calls me crazy. so i pull him outside and show him that while everything to our right was blue and pretty everything to our left looked like it was being eaten by the nothing.

needless to say the drive home sucked ass. the sky was that weird yellow color that i've only seen a couple of other times, and each of those times proved to be catastophic. and the raindrops that were hitting my windsheild were fucking HUGE. mos def a white knuckle drive the whole way...

Eep :( Glad you got home okay!

I just walked home in the pouring rain and dark, so it wasn't much of a camera-worthy novelty to me...more like making up new swear words in my head for each huge puddle I stepped in.

[housecat]

We got hail in Columbia too. It was loud as shit around 7p.m. so we go outside to check it out. Solid white hail the size of large peas. It was crazy.