Thunderstorm pictures and hot pixels

[Andre]

So the other evening, the last at Mont Cru, nature finally regaled me with a beautiful thunderstorm. So I set myself up and shot lots of 30 sec exposures during an hour of awesome display. Many pixs were useless, between nothing captured and a complete white out, but some dozen seemed very nice like this:

http://i52.tinypic.com/xpy9ac.jpg

But when I examined the pics more closely, I discovered a lot, maybe a dozen, hot pixels. I thought that this would be rather unacceptable for a camera like that. But after some reading like this (http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/hotpixels.htm) maybe it was not that bad at all.

So I tried that hot pixel elimunator in that link, with this result:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2cs9f7r.jpg

The original crop on top shows three hot pixels, from left to right a blue, red, and white one. The white light on the left is a light indeed, no hot pixel. The bottom crop after applying the eliminator, only shows a little bit of the red one left

[Astronuc]

So the other evening, the last at Mont Cru, nature finally regaled me with a beautiful thunderstorm. So I set myself up and shot lots of 30 sec exposures during an hour of awesome display. Many pixs were useless, between nothing captured and a complete white out, but some dozen seemed very nice like this:

http://i52.tinypic.com/xpy9ac.jpg Stunning picture, Andre! Awesome display. Nature reminds us how small we are!

[Andre]

Absolutely Astronuc and thanks

Here are some of the best shots, notice that the wind created ghost images of the leaves in some of them.

http://i55.tinypic.com/j5f9xs.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/2m5084p.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/ndt10y.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/2dlm0z6.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/y2ayw.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/148hwys.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/29bsrk.jpg

[Andy Resnick]

spectacular pics!