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Lightning Round!

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O'Doyle

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I just finished shooting a spectacular lighting exhibition, it's very late and I haven't got any sleep :(. I luckily have some lightning shots as a conciliation prize though. Well, without further adieu...

Heavens Tremble
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Storm Brewing
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God Bowling
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God's Strike
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I mainly used my Wideangle Lenses for these shots. My Canon RC-1 (Remote Control) came in very handy, well worth all the dollars :), I love my RC-1! I shot using BULB @ F/13 - F/20 and regulated each shot via my RC-1. Hope you guys like it.
 
Very cool. I've seen only one storm worth photographing this year and I didn't get any pics.

Out of curiosity, why did you change the aperture from shot to shot?
 
Oh, I only really changed the aperature once when I changed lenses. I was first using my Canon 28mm then went back and grabbed my Tamron 11-18mm which proved to be a better candidate.

Anyway, got any tips, this was my first time shooting lightning and it is pretty hard to capture it. I do the countdown thing but lighting is still very unpredictable.
 
jayjaya29 said:
Sweet, is it really that hard to take the pic when lightning strikes?
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Nope, it's one of the easiest things. Set the shutter for a lengthy amount, sit back, and enjoy. ;)

Nice shots above, but next time man you need to go to an empty parking lot or something and get those trees and houses out of the way. But nice shots none the less.

There was lightning right around me and I have a perfect spot to shoot it but I was running around trying to get important things done!@!#!!!!!! I was aggrivated haha.
 
Emberghost said:
Nope, it's one of the easiest things. Set the shutter for a lengthy amount, sit back, and enjoy. ;)

Nice shots above, but next time man you need to go to an empty parking lot or something and get those trees and houses out of the way. But nice shots none the less.

There was lightning right around me and I have a perfect spot to shoot it but I was running around trying to get important things done!@!#!!!!!! I was aggrivated haha.
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It's really not that easy as it sounds, it's not hard but it definately isn't that easy. I was lucky enough to have the RC-1 (my remote), with this, it was EASY. Set it to bulb, shoot in advance, wait for a lightning to hit, then close the shutter. With the timer, it get's kinda trickier. My sister's boyfriend was having some difficulties using the timer especially since this thunderstorm was very unpredictable... Sometimes 5 minute increments, sometimes it would hit every 10 minutes, other times just 2 minutes apart for some crazy lightning shows.... it wasn't in consecutive bursts or anything which made it hard to guess.

About the empty parking lot, it was kinda a spur of the moment, I didn't feel like going anywhere else. Maybe next time though.
 
Ya you're right, I'm thinking of the one big storm I encountered in Alabama where every 2 seconds there was a bolt.

Also work in raw, I captured this one tonight and w/o raw it would have been way over exposed.

 
Look at that cloud.... CRAZYYYY!

Did that storm carry some intensity or what?

And where were you when you took this photo, on top of a hill? Nice location bro!
 
dammit! tehre's a super rare nightime thunderstorm going on right now, and I can't get shit with my d70. its striking everywhere but where its pointed :(

Bulb, F11-f16, iso 1600 (i dunno if thats right, but I figured that the more sensitive the better), focus at infinity, and with the stock 18-70 lens
 
O'Doyle said:
Look at that cloud.... CRAZYYYY!

Did that storm carry some intensity or what?

And where were you when you took this photo, on top of a hill? Nice location bro!
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Thanks, it got way more intense and was coming in all around. I was up on a ridge shooting looking over a small city before the rain came in. A little later I went out again but this time in the rain in front of my house. Kept everything as dry as I could, but this set of pictures turned out to be out of focus!! Dunno how but I was pretty aggrivated about that one. :(
 
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