23: lightning

lightning

7 comments so far...

Andreas Bucher-Mack July 30, 2008, 08:32 PM

Ui! Schön!

Fortheloveof July 30, 2008, 10:41 PM

How lucky I've always wanted to get a picture of lightning. Great shot. : )

arodes July 31, 2008, 09:57 AM

yes, nice

Serge Gielkens August 04, 2008, 07:55 PM

At the right time, at the right place. Lucky you ;-)

eBrnd August 05, 2008, 11:40 PM

Actually I don't think I was that lucky.
During that storm, I took about 200 or 300 pictures. I even missed the biggest lightnings.
I had the aperture all the way closed to allow for longer exposure times (1 to 10 seconds as it was getting darker), to increase the probability of actually capturing a lightning.
Two or three of all the shots I took actually did have lightnings in them, I like this one, but the other ones were barely visible through the trees.

All of that I did balancing the camera on the window frame and some DVD boxes. I am SO getting a tripod and remote release as soon as I can afford it.

Serge Gielkens August 06, 2008, 12:02 AM

Luckily we are in the digital age now otherwise throwing away 99% of your pictures would not be very attractive to try to catch lightning.

eBrnd August 06, 2008, 12:14 PM

No. And when you can't check the images right away, you don't even see if you have captured a lightning or not.
On film, maybe I would have tried 3 or 4 times, then given up, and afterwards I would have wondered why there are a few almost black pictures in the package ;)