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05/13/2006 10:09:16 PM · #1 |
Well... I finally caught one!!!
I have been trying for quite some time to capture a lightning strike. Tonight I got lucky! What do you think?
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05/13/2006 10:12:24 PM · #2 |
| Excellent! Left a comment. |
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05/14/2006 12:42:10 AM · #3 |
What a wonderful night! I was able to get a few more that are even better than the first!
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05/14/2006 12:51:12 AM · #4 |
When I seen your pictures (impressive) I quickly went to your profile to see where you lived. I was saying to myself "those look like the same kind of lightening strikes we had tonight". May have been the same storm we don't live but a few hundred miles apart.
The lighting was wild here. It streaked mostly through the sky like a spider web. It was amazing but I had my camera charging before the storm and had to take it off charge when the storm came in and didn't have enough battery to take even one picture.
All of the pictures you took look great. |
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05/15/2006 01:58:52 AM · #5 |
Well the storms moved through Charleston tonight....about 2 hours of action.....this is one of my favorites from tonight
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05/15/2006 02:14:05 AM · #6 |
great pictures!!
this on my list of things to take, what settings and lenses should i be using and how do you focus? |
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05/15/2006 07:33:25 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by jaxsond:
Well the storms moved through Charleston tonight....about 2 hours of action.....this is one of my favorites from tonight
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Amazing shot! I left you a comment. |
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05/15/2006 09:53:35 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by richard42:
great pictures!!
this on my list of things to take, what settings and lenses should i be using and how do you focus? |
Tripod, small aperture (high number), put the shutter on bulb, point the camera where the lightning is happeneing (usually the front of a storm) and set your composition, hold the button down on the remote until you get a strike in your frame, repeat.
If you don't have a remote, just use a long shutter, fire away and hope one strikes while your shutter is open.
Or... I heard there is a device that plugs into your camera that will automatically fire the shutter when it picks up the flash (like a slave flash).
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05/15/2006 09:57:41 AM · #9 |
My husband woke me up at 1am to tell me a storm was rolling through. LOL...I have been known to be on my porch through the night with my tripod when I see one coming, and for hours.
CONGRATS on your first strike!!! I know catching mine was pure ecstasy!
Living in Florida, I really don't feel the need to stay perched for storms anymore. During the summer we can time are clocks every afternoon at 3pm as one rolls in and then out. However, they are easier to capture at night, so I do keep watch for those.
On my second attempt to catch a few, there was a complete light show outside. Any direction I pointed my camera was a good one. I must have about 20 captures from that night alone. So I am psyched that storm season has arrived in my neck of the woods! BUT, you have much better foreground then I do!!
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05/15/2006 11:58:47 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by LoudDog:
[quote=richard42] I heard there is a device that plugs into your camera that will automatically fire the shutter when it picks up the flash (like a slave flash). |
It can be found here It isn't cheap and is completely unnecessary for evening shots when the lightning is most dramatic. That being said, day shots of lightning aren't so common so it might be a fun toy if you got $400 you can't figure out how to spend. |
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