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09/06/2005 03:04:17 AM · #1 |
how? seems impossible. obviously i'm missing something.
EDIT: oops. i meant Lightning.
Message edited by author 2005-09-06 03:05:40.
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09/06/2005 03:10:19 AM · #2 |
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09/06/2005 03:19:56 AM · #3 |
ive seen many shots that have shutter speeds that aren't too long, like this one:
at 1/30th:
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09/06/2005 03:46:02 AM · #4 |
It's really more a matter of patience than anything else. A tripod is a non-optional accessory for such shots, and a remote is certainly helpful. Point your camera in the direction of the storm and shoot several hundred shots back to back. The exact exposure times will vary depending on the amount of ambient light, but f/5.6 at 10-20 seconds is probably a good starting point. Longer exposures increase the chance of you capturing lightning, but also increase the amount of reflected light off of the clouds. Smaller apertures (larger f-numbers) will allow you to capture more strikes in a single shot, but each of them will be fainter. As long as your tripod doesn't get moved you can always layer multiple strike images in Photoshop anyway (note: this is not legal under any DPC rule set).
I took somewhere in the region of 300 pictures of the storm before I captured this image. The 15 second exposure time was actually 4-8 seconds longer than it probably should have been to capture this bright bolt. Several burn layers were required to bring the brightness levels in this shot back to suitable levels.
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09/06/2005 04:26:16 AM · #5 |
I had some luck a while back with my camera on a mini tripod on the roof of my car and 3 second shutter speeds.
It was all trial and error but I managed to get about 10 strikes out of 100 or so shots. |
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09/06/2005 04:34:34 AM · #6 |
8 seconds
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09/06/2005 07:21:30 AM · #7 |
Lightning Trigger
Never tried one. |
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09/06/2005 07:52:03 AM · #8 |
I shot this at 1/100 at f11 during daylight. If your using digital just keep shooting at a cloud with lightning and erase all non-lightning shots. This one took approx. 25 shots to get one with lightning in it.
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