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Yeah had that problem with the uv filter on regular shots. I haven’t had too much trouble with that yet from the CP filter. I will keep that in mind though.

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I will definitely be in this week. I went out and got all three pics a few days ago. Had to go outside because I have crappy lighting in my home and sunlight is nice on the skin anyways. I really need to get a light box setup for stuff like my shots this week.

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wow. hard to get any slower at the ISO and fstop. A trigger would be cheaper and better for lightning than a quality ND filter…

/me heads on over to caradoc‘s gallery

Oh I forgot I had a circular polarizer on there too.

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ISO 100, 1/4 second at f22 at 18mm with my 18-55 kit lens. Oh and manual focus. And yeah I am not real big on getting zapped by natures static either. This was from my bedroom window looking over the neighbors apartment

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Is that you that favorited this on Flickr? if so want another contact?

Ok I just clicked on your sig link thingy and answered the first question. lol

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No I wish I had a lightning trigger. I just put my remote shutter trigger on the camera and started snapping pictures. Of almost 300 pictures this was the only success.

(edited to add) I don’t think this had any visible branching. it looked like a single line in my eye too. I had to look up arborization to understand that part.

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Ok that was funny especially the last 20 seconds or so. LOL

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I like the parallelism (is that even a word?) in the second… the first one really messed up my sense of perspective, which just made me look at it even more.

That and you’re the spitting image of a friend of mine 20 years ago.

That’s kinda weird because I was thinking something very similar about his appearance. You (Pickerel) look a lot like a guy I knew long ago in Portland Or. named Bill. You don’t really look to be in your mid 40s though so I doubt you are the same guy. lol

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Damn that last shot is cool! I like the star trails and lightning in one shot.

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I have the same lens (55-250) and have been pretty happy with it.

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Nice Puffin and harbor seal pictures too. Will look through the album later.

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Yeah I was pretty happy with the Rebel XS. It lasted from December 08 until a few weeks ago so I am ok with it dying now that I have a replacement. I really love the new T1i. I have taken around 90 pictures in the last two days. Mostly for this next theme. It’s been a pleasure to figure out the new camera. It’s mostly just like the XS . The XS doesn’t have a sensor for when you put the camera up to the eye piece so that was interesting to learn the new one does. I had to look up what the little doodads were all about. I’m just glad that wasn’t enabled from the factory or I would have thought there was a problem with the camera.

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And just to make sure that wasn’t just an old wives tale type thing I looked it up.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/lightning/resources/lightning-safety.pdf
Glad I have so far followed that advice.

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meanwhile, there’s always lightning during the ‘soons.

I wish I could capture some lightning. From my apartment I have an awesome view of all the other apts. all the way around mine. And with no natural horizon I have not even seen a decent bolt other than the flash of light in the clouds in weeks. And with no open spaces that are protected from getting zapped I have not had the urge to go out side and try that. ( kinda worry about that whole if you can Hear the lightning you can get hit thing) If I had a car I might think about it a little bit but I am not sure that would be much safer than just standing out in the open. Which is a bummer because we had a humdinger of a lightning storm just 2 hours ago. never saw a bolt other than the flash of brightness. the power went out for well over an hour though.

edited to change see to hear lightning.

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I have the 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 kit lens that came with the old camera and yeah normally great dark skies but not tonight we are enjoying some rainy monsoon type stuff here right now. I have a gnarly solid tripod now too so yeah astro-shots will be happening once the weather decides to be a bit more desert like again. lol

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