Fellow Photographers - amazing Ligtning hits Eifel Tower


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    Fellow Photographers - amazing Ligtning hits Eifel Tower


    Hi there
    Any photographers here
    - enjoy this amazing shot someone managed to catch of a lightning bolt striking the Eifel Tower in Paris - some people have all the luck as you certainly can't plan for this type of shot.

    Sacrebleu!

    Enjoy !!!!!

    Cheers
    jimbo
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    Actually, you can plan for this type of shot but it takes an incredibly huge amount of patience. Something like the Eifel Tower is a lightning rod that is pretty much guaranteed to get struck by lightning during any lightning storm. All photographer has to do is set up the camera on a tripod at the start of a storm, then keep taking one long exposure shot after the other until the storm is over. Using two cameras starting new exposures at staggered times would eliminate the chance of missing a strike in the split second between the end of one shot and the beginning of another. If a good shot isn't achieved during that storm, wait for the next. Like I said, an incredibly huge amount of patience.
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    Awesome
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  4. Posts : 5,956
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    Wow ! looks like something out of a movie
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  5. Posts : 7,379
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    Beautiful and dangerous! I hope no one was hurt.
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