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File:Lightning in the sky over Tuntorp.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 24 May 2021 at 12:39:59 (UTC)
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- Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Lightning
Info Here we go, experimenting again. Photographing lightning in daylight is a bit different than at night, you can't just leave the shutter open and let the flash fix the exposure, so there aren't that many such photos here on Commons and no FPs. With a thunderstorm coming in from the sea, I set up the camera on a tripod, pointed it in the direction I hoped the flashes would appear (that also had the best foreground) set the video rolling and hoped for the best.
- I managed to get three flashes on video and one of them looked pretty nice, so I selected the best frame and used it as "raw" to process a photo. Hence the small size. And yes, my camera can shoot video in 4K, but only at 25 frames/sec. With flashes being rather quick it was better to set it to full HD and get 50 frames/sec instead. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 12:39, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Abstain as author. -- Cart (talk) 12:39, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Too small. Compare with File:Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning in Port-la-Nouvelle.jpg for example -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- That's a nighttime shot, so different technique. This is shot in daylight as explained above. --Cart (talk) 07:50, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Only 2 Mpx, this resolution was maybe fine in 2005 or 2006, but in 2021 modern equipment allow to produce much bigger images, more impressive. Even my mobile phone takes 8K videos (33 Mpx x 24 frames per second), that look great when downsized at 4K. But this picture is not 4K, it is really tiny, reaching the acceptable limit of the guidelines without real justification. Also posterized sky with visible artifacts at the left -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:22, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, I know, but you need 50 frames per second to properly capture a flash of lightning so that limits the size. With 24 fps you can miss it or it will get blurry. --Cart (talk) 08:40, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Disagree. I made similar videos when I was in Vientiane (that day), from which I could extract pictures perfectly fine at 24 fps -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:53, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Wow! You can extract perfect shots of lightning in daylight from a 24 fps. Please show us, I would love to see that and it would be great to have them on Commons. Posterization fixed, thanks for pointing it out. --Cart (talk) 09:04, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Not fixed ;
- Yes, when I'll have time I'll upload them. Still have other work to handle first ;
- Bracketing would have been a better technique to obtain a decent size IMO -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:32, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose barely above 2 MP photo has to be nowadays very special to deserve a star. Imho this one is not. --Ivar (talk) 10:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Now that the technique has been shown, I hope someone with better equipment than me makes an attempt with this. --Cart (talk) 20:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
