{"id":201,"date":"2008-04-29T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-04-29T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:55:30","slug":"042608-chase-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/042608-chase-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"04\/26\/08 Chase Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday I got just about exactly what I was expecting. Some great storm structure and my first good chance to try some lightning photography with my new Canon Rebel xti. Overall I am pleased with my first attempts, but as always, there is room for much improvement.<\/p>\n

I missed the really great shot Steve Miller got<\/a> as I was setting up my camera. But later got the above shot, which I love, and this one below, which was actually a mistake because I bumped the camera with the shutter open, but it still came out a very cool shot I think.<\/p>\n

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After meeting up with Steve we shortly ran into Jason Boggs<\/a> and we all spend the rest of the evening repositioning in front of the storms to stay out of the rain and shoot lighting.<\/p>\n

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When I got the above shot I was very excited because on the camera LCD it looked like an awesome shot. It wasn’t until I got it on the bigger computer screen later I realized it was not completely in focus. How disappointing! I was able to clean it up a little in post work, enough for a decent pic for the web anyway. I did however get the one below later in perfect focus. Too bad it wasn’t a CG.<\/p>\n

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Well parted ways somewhere near Roby, TX and as they went home I stuck around a little while longer, addicted to the lightning and wanting a few more chances. Unfortunately, the cloud to ground lightning I wanted died off after they left. I ended the day with the shot below which was nice however.<\/p>\n

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It was a good first chance to use my new camera for EXACTLY what I wanted it for. I obviously still have a great deal to learn, but it should only get better from here!<\/p>\n

There could be an outside chance I might chase in OK this coming Thursday, but it’s not likely. I don’t care for the SSW winds just above the surface. It’s more likely I will be chasing in the coming Sunday\/Monday time frame, and a bit closer to home as well. Still a bit far out in the models to get specific, but I’ll keep an eye on it and start blogging the forecast as we get closer. In the mean time, I’ll catch up on some work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday I got just about exactly what I was expecting. Some great storm structure and my first good chance to try some lightning photography with my new Canon Rebel xti. Overall I am pleased with my first attempts, but as always, there is room for much improvement. I missed the really great shot Steve Miller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}