Thunder and lightning, Everybody was frightening

immski · Aug 9, 2006

Here is one i cought during a recent storm after some not so good ones. It took me forever to get the exposure perfect and to be lucky too :wink:

. 30 sec exp.

mentos_007 · Aug 9, 2006

whoa... so you were... outside? in the woods? under a tree??? shooting lightening? oh my...

Antarctican · Aug 9, 2006

AWESOME shot! Wow. Love the purple colour, and that's a big bolt of lightning. You must be thrilled with this pic (I know I would be).

ShootHoops · Aug 9, 2006

Oh man, I'm so jealous! I've been wanting to take pics like this for a long time. Great job!

immski · Aug 9, 2006

Yeah I had really wanted to for a long time then one night it just was lightning every where and I was like hey im going for it. 157 shots later I got this. Ironically this was my last one of the night. Frustrated from sub par shots i was like this is the last then im going in. right at the end of the exposure it struck! I was so happyy for sure

Cheyenne · Aug 9, 2006

Wow! What a fantastic shot it's great!

Vmann · Aug 9, 2006

Nice colors and I love the black shilloute of the trees framing the pic

TommiP · Aug 10, 2006

Great Shot I really like it, Wish we got lightening storms like that in the UK!!!!!!!

teishu · Aug 10, 2006

By exposure time do you mean shutter speed ? (Sorry im a n00b)

Atlas · Aug 10, 2006

Hi Immski,

Lightning is my favourite photos, but sooooo hard to get.

Like you, it took me a long time to work out the settings, and by the time I thought I had them right, our storm season was over...

So I am really looking forward to October when it starts again.

I stood outside for three hours to get the shot below, click wait... click wait....of 120 trys, I got 4 keepers !!! I had no idea about RAW back then, so these were done in JPEG... Oh well ya learn I guess

Here is one I got last January, colour is as shot :

Hope you dont think I am hijacking your thread

Regards

Atlas
Brisbane
Australia