1st Lightning pic

mrsid99 · Apr 22, 2005

Taken from my back door a few minutes ago, F4.5, 15 seconds, ISO 100 with a 28mm Tamron lens set to infinity on a Canon 10D.

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nannabug · Apr 22, 2005

Cool! Difficult subject. I've never caught lightning on film yet.

aprilraven · Apr 22, 2005

great capture! but might i suggest..? you seem a little bit close, there, and that makes me nervous....but its really a good shot of the fingers of the lightning....very cool....

thebeginning · Apr 22, 2005

electric! hah.

very nice! i've never tried that before. youve done it well.

john3eblover · Apr 23, 2005

sweet

hobbes28 · Apr 23, 2005

I'm so jealous Sid. They keep telling us we're going to have a thunderstorm up here but I haven't seen one yet.

Great shot and it's kinda cool how it followed the rule of thirds by itself.

pursuer · Apr 23, 2005

That's awsome!!! Very hard subject indeed, this is somthing I have allways wanted to do, I have tried once before with no success. Nice capture, thanks for sharing it.

mrsid99 · Apr 24, 2005

aprilraven said:
great capture! but might i suggest..? you seem a little bit close, there, and that makes me nervous....but its really a good shot of the fingers of the lightning....very cool....

Hi April,
Didn't have too much say in how close I was, just lucky that it hit when the shutter was open.
Thanks for the kind words folks, never saw a decent electric storm during 25 years in California.
While looking through some of the other pics I took that night I found a cloud to cloud strike:

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mentos_007 · Apr 25, 2005

very nice! you are lucky! I'm waiting for a lightning for about 8 months now

LittleMan · Apr 25, 2005

very nice!
I heard there was a lightning storm here at my house last night.... but I slept through it.... :lmao:

bluesaphyer · Apr 25, 2005

Thats a great pic! Congrats! I had my 1st attempt at lightning photos last weekend. I didn't get set up until the end of the storm though. I stood there for forever waiting for a lightning bolt, and when one finally came it was so big that it startled me and my finger came off the shutter release. I only got like a third of the bolt, and most of that was hidden by tree branches! :grumpy: