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Friday, November 20, 2009

Weather Photography

One of the things that I enjoy is meteorology. The weather has always fascinated me, especially cloud formations. I used to want to become a storm-cbaser, but my science marks stank. So I have become the next best thing; a photographer, and enjoy taking pictures of clouds.

Now these clouds were taken on the 17th of November. The first one, I blended in ArcSoft Photosuite 5.5 and it took several tries. The photo is still dark, but considering the aperture of f/22 to get the speed up to where I could handhold it. it came out pretty good.


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While walking over to Wal-Mart, my wife and I saw a cloud with some ice particles in it. This provided the "rainbow effect" that we saw in the following photo.
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The rest of these photos were taken on the following day when we had a break between systems and the sun was able to poke out from between the clouds for a short while so I shot these while taking the kids to school.

The first one has some lens-flare but at least it doesn't obscure or detract from the image very much. Most of these photos are silhouettes as that's pretty much all you can do pointing a camera at the sun.


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While walking home from taking the kids to school, I saw the next system moving in so I took a picture of that plus a few more artistic shots.


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Photographing clouds and weather is fun. However remember your safety. Make sure that shoot by remote if you're trying to get pictures of lightning. A metal tripod makes a great conductor of electricity. Photography is a hobby that shouldn't cost you your life.


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