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While there were fireworks and Illuminares festivals scheduled in Vancouver for the Saturday night,
they were preempted by a spectacular sunset and lightning show, along with an associated drenching
to quell the planned festivities. The lightning show was pretty neat, and I mounted my camera on my
balcony with 30 s time exposures to capture the strikes. I also tried some longer "bulb" exposures,
but they tended to be overexposed and noisy.
While I was sitting at my desk, there was a massive flash with thunder and I wondered if my camera captured it, but when I checked, the image was almost completely white, so I thought something had screwed up. However, I was able to substantially decrease the gamma and find that the huge strike went right across the view, and ionized all the air to purple glow
File Name : IMG_6211.jpeg Date/Time Original : 2009:07:25 22:05:27 Camera Model Name : Canon EOS 50D Aperture : 10.0 Exposure Time : 30 ISO : 200 Shooting Mode : Manual Metering Mode : Evaluative Focus Mode : Manual Focus (3) Exposure Compensation : 0 Lens Model : EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM Focal Length : 38.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.3 mm) Field Of View : 32.7 deg File Size : 98 kB Image Size : 1280x854 Quality : Fine Drive Mode : Single-frame shooting Flash : Off White Balance : Auto Mirror Lockup : Disable Contrast : +2 Sharpness : 4 Saturation : +3 Color Tone : +1 Camera Body No. : 0320215167
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