lightening
Jul 6, 2014 00:49:37 #
dlmorris wrote:
What amazed me was when I took what I thought was a single bolt of lightning, there were often several branches, and some didn't even seem to be a,part of the main flash. I'm seeing the same thing in many of the other shots being posted. Really interesting!
Yeah, the camera sees more than we do when shooting lightning. I think that the main flash stops our eyes down to around f/60 or so. :)
Jul 6, 2014 01:24:53 #
LENNIE
Loc: Cerrillos, NM
someone else on the site suggested a light sensitive timer and i ordered one ... hope it get as good results as you have attained... i just LOVE my rebel..thanks
Jul 6, 2014 01:27:34 #
LENNIE
Loc: Cerrillos, NM
this shot is what i would call a "WOW" love how the background shows up in such amazing tones.. Thanks
Jul 6, 2014 01:44:45 #
Racmanaz
Loc: Sunny Tucson!
dlmorris wrote:
What I've done for daytime shots was to set the camera to manual everything, slow shitter speed, higher f ratio, and taken several shots, adjusting the settings till I was happy, then hooked up my lightening detector and waiting. For night shots, I take a series of time exposures, hoping to get something.... Didn't have the lightening detector at that time.
What's a "shitter" speed lol ;)
Jul 6, 2014 03:37:08 #
dlmorris
Loc: Loma Linda, Ca
Racmanaz wrote:
What's a "shitter" speed lol ;)
It's what happens when you get too close to the subject!!
Jul 6, 2014 03:37:49 #
Racmanaz
Loc: Sunny Tucson!
dlmorris wrote:
It's what happens when you get too close to the subject!!
LOL good one.
Jul 6, 2014 13:00:12 #
LENNIE
Loc: Cerrillos, NM
thanks for taking the time to post--have decided to buy a sensor and am now anxious for the weather to cooperate
Jul 6, 2014 14:09:45 #
Racmanaz wrote:
What's a "shitter" speed lol ;)
It's what happens when you have a cloud to ground strike near you...
:-D
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Jul 8, 2014 12:06:23 #
LENNIE wrote:
i live in a place where we have lots of lightening and wide,open horizons to photograph it without a lot of background clutter --i need help determining what are optimal settings --auto setting doesn't do it for me
I found lightning to be easy for me. Before I got a shutter release I would set my shutter for 30 seconds, release the shutter and hope to catch something. Sometimes I would catch a strike, sometimes nothing and sometimes multiple strikes. I also found that if I counted between strikes that they were fairly consistent and I could sort of time my shutter release. (Sort of being the key word). I would shoot at ISO 100, usually about 55mm and I would focus on something far away then turn off auto focus. For daytime strikes a lightning trigger is essential. I am at work so I can't post any of my work right now but here is a link to my photo stream on a different site where I have numerous lightning photos as well as a lot of other stuff. The link is to a strike I caught.
http://skyshooter.megashot.net/photos/258033
Jul 8, 2014 16:31:51 #
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