[caradoc]

Dammit, Caradoc, I’ve been out several times and just can’t seem to find the thunderheads displaying bolts in the daylight to pop my lightning trigger cherry! And you just go posting them away….

My day job is 5AM to 3PM, and I’ve got a sixteen-month-old in the house.

Therefore, I must get my photos when I can, where I can. As I recall, you were the one who’s been able to get out and go places like the Hunt highway more often than I this season… 😉

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It might, but I really doubt it – and unless you’ve got the sensor potted in the viewfinder, it’s still going to trigger for meteors out of frame.

Doesn’t seem to be all that useful, much like a lightning trigger at night for lightning.

[caradoc]

I’ll stand you to a beer sometime soon.

[caradoc]

Pop up flashes only do one thing good. Ruin photos.

Untrue. A pop-up flash turned to EV -1.7 or thereabouts makes decent fill flash without being overly harsh.

I’ve used mine a few times – but almost never at full power.

[caradoc]

Stunning. I’m a geek, and I like the first better. This is the showpiece, the first is the art.

So do I. Wife asked me if I could “Disneyfy” it a little bit. She likes the latter. I like the former…

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I did just a little post on it. How’s this?

[caradoc]

That last one looks like a Mars-scape!!

The dust will do that around here. This is an older one:

[caradoc]

I tend to stay off the hilltops, and relatively close to power lines (but not under them) as lightning will typically hit them before me.

I also try to stay outside a five-mile radius of the active cell. This does not make me “safe,” but “safer.”

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(Clicky to embiggen)

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Things got a little dirty today:

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The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Saturday night into Sunday morning. Could be good for an astro-porn fix.

Interesting. I’ve had generally poor outcomes from my meteor shooting tries. Any tips you’d like to share?

For me, shooting meteor showers is much like lightning, but at MUCH higher ISOs. I typically go to ISO 800 or 1600 as opposed to my regular ISO 100 or 200 for lightning, and open the aperture up.

I also try to keep exposure times to just below “star trailing.”

Here’s a Quadrantid from a few years back – they were REALLY faint.

You might need to click on that and view Original size to see the meteor trail. EXIF data is public on that, too.

Here’s a Perseid…

[caradoc]

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Saturday night into Sunday morning. Could be good for an astro-porn fix.

[caradoc]

I see Johnny 5.

Hmmmm.

Maybe a bit.

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The brighter stroke looks kind of vaguely like Kokopelli.

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