Dave Ludlow

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:24:40 +0100, "Dave Wheeler"
<dawadderaman@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Chris
>I've been giving this more thought. A lightning disgarge is of
>extremely brief duration. Effectively the picture referenced above is
>a 'flash' photograph. The image we are discussing was taken with a 4
>second exposure. Once the flash had gone more information from the
>background - where the flash had been - continued to be recorded
>'greying' out the flash and reflections in cloud and sea.
>For most effective results the flash should have happened towards the
>end of the exposure not, as I surmise, near the beginning.
>Dave
>Fair Isle
Interesting discussion, guys!

The closest daytime lightning photos I can find to the one under
discussion are towards the bottom of the following web page and there
are some interesting comments too (e.g. 58 failed attempts for two
successful ones!):

http://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/summer05a.htm

.... and the two shown _certainly_ look more realistic than the one in
dispute. But I am no expert on weather photography so I'll leave it to
others to continue the discussion, which I'll follow with interest!

--
Dave
Fareham