Yesterday there was a big thunderstorm!
It was fun to try catching lightning! It did not went out very well, but it is okay since it was fun!

OMG! Those are awesome!
Now I am so jealous of you guys course it seems everyone here has been able to take at least one decent lightning shot except me

Thank you.
I was sitting inside for like 2 hours because it was raining! You have to be patient.

What a shot!!! This is so amazing especially because i felt what its like to hunt one like that..
Might have been the same storm even.

Have been sitting OUTSIDE under the veranda roof the whole evening yesterday during the storm,
but didnt manage to get a good shot on a lightning

Either i was too slow or the clouds/rain were too thick and the sky just lighten up without an actual lightning bolt to be seen.

Wont give up though and can present one as well soon hopefully

This post was edited by NaRa on Aug 21 2009 01:20pm

Thank you very mych.
It could be the same storm since it went north east.

Lovely, I did not had a dry place to sit, quite sad because I like thunder and the smell of rain.

What settings did you use?

I hope you will share the photos if you got some doing an other storm.

This post was edited by Qhotex on Aug 21 2009 01:22pm

That second picture is almost scary!!!!
You can feel the power within the bolt in there...

No problem, they are truly amazing!
Yeah probably, i left the lightnings of the storm virginal for you photo-wise

Im not an expert at all on this to be honest, actually im just starting to get into it slowly...
Thats why i cant really tell what settings i used and in fact i had huge difficulties to find the right timing and settings

If you got any advise eventually this would be highly appreciated.

Will of course share the work if i ever catch one.

Yeah some of them were quite nasty! I love the sound!



Haha.
What camera do you have then? A dslr ?

Well, I used around 2 - 3 secs of shutterspeed and a aperture of 9 - 11 since it was not night outside and i wanted to get a long shutterspeed. I do not know if it was the right thing to do.
I had manual focus but I do not think it worked out very well if you look at the nonresized ones.

thats so epic lol

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