The Raging Stillness #2 by Geoff Coleman - Landscapes
This is a photoblend of 91 X 30 second exposures using the brilliant Startrails photoblend action that you can download from here
This is the 45 minute storm in one shot – in other words it’s the opposite end of the spectrum from the timelapse version I recently posted here
Trippy huh!
The large white streak in the sky is the moontrail, the little ones are startrails. The long lines sweeping across the sky are planes taking off and landing and the ones on the water are fishing trawlers.
A couple of curious things in this image. The first is the clear section of cloud above the main lightning strikes versus the blurred cloud around them. I think this is the result of these clouds being flashlit by each of the 20 odd lightning strikes whereas the other clouds were lit evenly by the moon in each image and hence blurred in the blend (hope that makes sense).
The other weird thing is that strange green line just above the middle planetrail near the centre of the image. It isn’t parallel to the startrails so isn’t one of them and satellites move so fast that one of those would have shown up as a long streak like the planetrails – any ideas?
Taken off the cliffs at Bundeena, Royal National Park, Sydney Australia.
Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII
EF 16-35mm f/2.8 LII USM
Tv: 30sec
Av: f/3.5
ISO: 200
FL: 17mm
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great work, well done
This is superbly inspirational as well as being, well … superb.
Thanks Peter – glade you like it.
– Geoff Coleman - Landscapes
This is so inspirational, makes me want to go out and try it. Fantastic work!
Thanks Erin – go for it – it’s lots of fun.
– Geoff Coleman - Landscapes
outstanding geoff…..love it
Wow this is just killer fabulous…I’m knocked over, I love lightening, I used to storm chase as well in my younger days…love your work, awesome.. ;-)
Zoe
wowsers I’ve not seen anything like this before.
A lot of work for a great image.
nice piece.
You’ve got quite a bit happening in here, Geoff – quite an image. If only you’d got a fireball, that would have been brilliant. I’d say the green line is an internal reflection of the moon. It’s certainly parallel to the moon’s trail, and is not a crisp, thin trail.
Just looked at your animation, and you can see a faint image slowly moving upwards, as the moon rises, so I’d say it has to be a reflection on the moon. Grab the time slider and keep moving it back & forward, and you should be able to see it quite easily (it’s a dot that rises more slowly than the stars around it).
Well clever you – that makes lots of sense – so much for the UFO theory! Thanks – the image is a little over the top but I kind of liked it for that.
– Geoff Coleman - Landscapes