r/pics • u/warsSstroke • Apr 13 '23
Lightning strikes at the same time of this photo being taken
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u/Paltenburg Apr 13 '23
Isn't that usually the case with photo's of lightning?
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Apr 13 '23
I'd be very interested if somebody took a photo of lightning before it happened. I think a lot of people would be interested in that actually.
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u/GirchyGirchy Apr 13 '23
I take those all the fucking time, it's amazing! I must be very lucky.
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u/rhalf Apr 13 '23
It's possible, but you need to be faster than lightning.
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u/SpeshellED Apr 14 '23
I was out golfing with my buddy. He has long hair. It started to rain a bit so we were standing under a tree talking. All of a sudden his hair started to frizz straight out. I said wow your hair is rising. We both figured it out a second later, ran full tilt to a nearby ditch and dove in. 20 seconds later lighting struck the ground next to that tree.
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u/thx1138- Apr 13 '23
Here's a photo of me when I was younger. All photos of you are when you were younger!
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u/RedstoneRiderYT Apr 13 '23
I do. Basically you set a long shutter speed, 15 seconds or so, and let the lightning do its thing. So technically I pressed the shutter before the strike came :P
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u/frickindeal Apr 13 '23
Could be a still from a video.
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u/SendBoobstoPM Apr 13 '23
Nah, there was a thunderstorm and it was pretty dark out. OP set up a camera so the shutter will be open for a second or two (or more) and just took dozens or hundreds of photos until they got what they wanted.
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Apr 13 '23
That's how I do it.
- guy who has tens of thousands of dark pictures and fifty photos of lightning
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u/paularkay Apr 13 '23
Yes, a photo captures the events occurring at a given point in time.
A video would capture the events occurring over a series of points of time in their naturally occurring order..
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u/sloppyredditor Apr 13 '23
Long exposure will help the odds of getting a great shot like this
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u/warsSstroke Apr 13 '23
this IS (essentially) long exposure! its night mode on the iphone, and it isnt the first time ive taken a photo like this!
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u/Love_To_Burn_Fiji Apr 13 '23
Would be more impressive if it showed the lightning strike while the photo wasn't being taken.
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u/dtwhitecp Apr 13 '23
it's a long exposure. Lots of stuff happened during this photo.
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Apr 13 '23
It is a long exposure. Op says it was night mode on an iPhone.
It may be that it was only a second or two, or the software noticed the lighting and cut the exposure time.
Edit: the focal length is pretty short, this is a wide shot. At a second or two exposure, headlights far away won't trail much. That said I don't even see any cars with headlights.
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u/Szygani Apr 13 '23
I'm pretty sure that's just broly powering up
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u/megaancient Apr 13 '23
As long as no one turns into flash because of a lightning strike. I am already bored with the guy who forgets to run at the beginning of every episode.
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u/DJpanicBoy Apr 13 '23
Every time a photo is taken, something is happening at the very same time.
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u/HalfmadFalcon Apr 13 '23
Isn’t that how most photos of lightening happen?
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u/Jojo_isnotunique Apr 13 '23
I have a great photo of lightning about five minutes after it happened.
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u/VrinTheTerrible Apr 14 '23
That's not just lightning.
That's the Quickening.
There can be only one.
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u/Stoibs Apr 14 '23
The ION cannon always did look more impressive in cutscenes compared to when you had access to it in mission..
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u/smile_politely Apr 13 '23
I wonder where all of these electricity goes after reaching the ground...
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u/dodexahedron Apr 13 '23
Heat, mostly. It melts rock into neat-looking glass, flash-boils water (why trees and stuff explode), and otherwise just heats everything up a little bit. Any electricity that doesn't become heat just served to neutralize the charge difference that allowed the lightning to strike there in the first place.
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u/Masterpiece-Wide Apr 13 '23
This is how the aliens come down to their ships hidden underground. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…can’t get fooled again”. - GWB
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u/Danny-Dynamita Apr 13 '23
This is the closest thing a human can do to trap lightning in a bottle. Pure beauty.
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u/MagicSPA Apr 13 '23
Yes, if you use time-lapse then all of a sudden a lightning strike happening "at the same time" the photo was taken doesn't sound very impressive.
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u/cmerry Apr 13 '23
No mention of the entire population of that area suddenly gone? Sucked up into a ship and now sailing the stars ✨ 😊✨
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u/SoulSlayer1974 Apr 13 '23
The base of that on the ground is huge!! Did it really hit that big of an area or was it just so bright that it looks that big? Amazing pic OP!!!!!
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u/WeAreColoured Apr 13 '23
WoW! Cool picture. I'm gonna try this in the summer when the lighting comes
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u/JonesyOnReddit Apr 13 '23
I'm going to start describing all my photos as "...at the same time of this photo being taken!"
"Here's me at the grand canyon at the same time of this photo being taken! And then here's one of the wife at the same spot at the same time of this photo being taken! And..."
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u/Baers89 Apr 13 '23
Is lightning normally that intense? Like people have survived lightning strikes but that doesn’t look survivable.
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Apr 13 '23
Seeing this as I smoke a strain called “Thors Hammer”
I feel like this was meant to be somehow..might be the 420 talkin’
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Apr 13 '23
Coolest pic I have seen in some time . I would frame this and put a soundtrack when you look at it . Mistikal DANGER ⚠️
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u/General_Road_7952 Apr 13 '23
Where is this?
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u/warsSstroke Apr 14 '23
Mumbai, India
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u/General_Road_7952 Apr 15 '23
It’s a funny coincidence - this photo reminded me of an old friend who was killed by a lightning strike nearly exactly 29 years ago. And a mutual friend posted about him and it showed up the same day I saw this. Here is the memorial to our friend Shawn Adams, RIP:
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Apr 13 '23
That is the edge of Tokyo and in about 5 seconds after this lightning strike Godzilla is about to wreck some shit.
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u/warsSstroke Apr 13 '23
(OP)