Finally, i had a chance to take some lightning shots for the first time ever.
I am very happy that it worked out. Here are the results!
(Taken August 3rd 2006 little after midnight…)
My first lightning shot ever.
That’s all for now. Hope i get more chances like this.
That first shot is utterly ridiculous.
I got stuck in that storm too btw on my way home tonight :tdown: Traction issues like a mother fucker. damn good think I don’t have a locker or something
We were sitting on patio watching it on the water and into N.T. so awesome looking but what it can do when it hits something.
Very nice pics tho.I need a damn camera to catch some of these shots over here.
D
nice first shot, did you crop that or did you just manage to perfectly center everything?
No cropping done to the pics above.
No cropping done to the pics below.
Taken around 3 am. 2nd wave of the storm.
This one below was taken from the inside through the glass door.
Yes, thats a 3rd gen prelude…heh, too bad the lightning didn’t hit it.
and last one for the night, i hope…?!
Damn, i have to work in a few hours. It was well worth it tho. I hope i don’t see no more lightning for the night, cause ill get up and take some more pics.
I missed a huge lightning strike while i was setting up the camera. It went horizontal in the sky, and it was huge!
hot pics 
wimp 
shoulda been outside taking pics instead
i got scurrred and went to bed
If you like pic’s like that, I have TON’s, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60. And, that’s only since I moved to SC. The storms here are rediculous! Lightning literally every 10 seconds. Sooo, it works perfectly with a open shutter around 20 seconds and a darkening filter.
I usually use a F-Stop reducer of 1, F Stop at 2.8 and a 20 second shutter speed.
Then, when I get real lazy, I set up the tripod and put it on intervalometer and automatically take 1 picture every 30 seconds for 30 minutes…
The lightning actually scared me last night.
I would see the lightning, but therer was no thunder. I was like omg, TRIPODS, and not the kind you put a camera on. To my relief I started hearing thunder and there was no EMP pulse, so I knew I was safe, this time.
Seems tough to time those pics just right.
nice pics…
i woke up at 2am because of that storm…went to close my windows… tripped over something on my floor and hurt my toe 
nice, i got out too late last nite and this is the only one i got
Those are awesome.
How do you do it though?
I have tried but I don’t know what I am doing.