Spring arrived in Baltimore and brought Winter with it -- we started
astronomical Spring with Winter weather. Then it jumped immediately
to July, skipping the rest of April, May, and June. (Forecast calls
for April-ish weather to finally arrive next week, last I heard.)
This afternoon, taking a break from the keyboard, I wandered upstairs
and noticed that the Big White Building (used to be a warehouse for a
chain of department stores, currently being rennovated as office space)
a mile or so away looked Unusually White against the Funky Blue the
sky was at that moment. So I threw a roll of Agfa CT Precisa 100 slide
film in the ME (wanted to keep other bodies available for faster stuff
at a play rehearsal this evening) to snap a couple shots of the nifty
colours. Would've been perfect for Konica VX 100, but my last roll of
that is in the fridge and I figured conditions would change before it
came up to room temperature.
All of that just meant that I was in the right part of the house to
notice the thunderstorm start to roll in.
I wanted nice long shutter times so as to maximize the odds of the
shutter being open when lightning flashed, so I threw some Kodachrome
25 into the Super Program (I probably should have used one of my
precious rolls of Ultra 50, but that was in the fridge...), put the
35/3.5 lens on it, stuck a polarizer on that, set the lens to f/22,
and got 15-second shutter times according to the meter. (It's still
daylight here.)
The compositions are going to be mediocre -- I'll have to print from
the slides so I can crop 'em -- because I was pointing the camera in
the few directions where I could stabilize it. Sandwiched between
window and sill for a few; pressed up against a windowpane with my
forehead for others; perched on a windowsill and fired using the self
timer for a couple.
And out of 36 exposures, there was lightning in front of me while
the shutter was open on a couple of 'em. Now to hope that I didn't
stop down so much that the lightning is fainter than the sky...
-- Glenn
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