DougGrosjean
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My own favorite nighttime shot, taken October 1982, during the time I lived in Phoenix / Tempe, from South Mountain Park.
<img src="http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4086911-md.jpg"/>
Details:
I'd only been out of high school only 2 years, had completed motorcycle mechanic school at Phoenix's MMI, and was living 2000 miles from home. No car, no family, no entanglements. And had finally gotten into photography after wanting to do so for years.
Shot on Kodachrome 25, F5.6, shutter speed of 4 minutes. Everything that came down during that time was captured.
I was glad not to be electrocuted, or wet. I'd ridden up on my Kawasaki KZ-650c, mini-tripod and stopwatch and camera in the Eclipse tankbag, in windy weather. When I arrived, I could see rainy areas scattered in the valley below. I'd been up there many times before to shoot the valley below at night, all lit up, so knew the exposure. I pulled out my mini-tripod and my 35mm SLR and my stopwatch. Exposure was 4 minutes, f5.6, on Kodachrome 25. I took 3 shots; this was the first. The second shot all the lightning bolts were in one area on the left, and the third shot the show was over, there was no lightning.
Dodged every drop of falling rain, saw an awesome storm, and got one shot that still stuns viewers over 25 years later.
It wasn't just luck that I had my camear and tripod and knew the exposure. I was prepared for something, but didn't know just what when I left my apartment in Tempe AZ. But I sure can't take all the credit, because I couldn't control where the lightning bolts came down at, or where they appeared in the frame.
<img src="http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4086911-md.jpg"/>
Details:
I'd only been out of high school only 2 years, had completed motorcycle mechanic school at Phoenix's MMI, and was living 2000 miles from home. No car, no family, no entanglements. And had finally gotten into photography after wanting to do so for years.
Shot on Kodachrome 25, F5.6, shutter speed of 4 minutes. Everything that came down during that time was captured.
I was glad not to be electrocuted, or wet. I'd ridden up on my Kawasaki KZ-650c, mini-tripod and stopwatch and camera in the Eclipse tankbag, in windy weather. When I arrived, I could see rainy areas scattered in the valley below. I'd been up there many times before to shoot the valley below at night, all lit up, so knew the exposure. I pulled out my mini-tripod and my 35mm SLR and my stopwatch. Exposure was 4 minutes, f5.6, on Kodachrome 25. I took 3 shots; this was the first. The second shot all the lightning bolts were in one area on the left, and the third shot the show was over, there was no lightning.
Dodged every drop of falling rain, saw an awesome storm, and got one shot that still stuns viewers over 25 years later.
It wasn't just luck that I had my camear and tripod and knew the exposure. I was prepared for something, but didn't know just what when I left my apartment in Tempe AZ. But I sure can't take all the credit, because I couldn't control where the lightning bolts came down at, or where they appeared in the frame.
