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British Columbia Sport & Outdoor Lounge => Outdoor Photography => Topic started by: Rodney on June 29, 2009, 04:23:59 PM

Title: Lightnings
Post by: Rodney on June 29, 2009, 04:23:59 PM

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2425/3547790342_0effd3457f_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: DragonSpeed on June 29, 2009, 11:21:15 PM

Nice - I hate Vancouver - we don't get any good electrical storms :(

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Keener on July 28, 2009, 08:34:34 AM

Someone must have some nice shots on the last lightning storm....

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Shooter on July 28, 2009, 08:48:38 AM

wow... nice shot rod!  How does one go about photographing lightning?  i have heard that you actually have to take the picture before the strike occurs??

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: DragonSpeed on July 28, 2009, 03:19:02 PM

Quote from: Shooter on July 28, 2009, 08:48:38 AM

wow... nice shot rod!  How does one go about photographing lightning?  i have heard that you actually have to take the picture before the strike occurs??

Option A)

1) Tripod
2) High F-Number (due to 2 and not wanting to have other lights kill the shot)
3) Long exposure
4) Luck

Option B)

Shoot when you see the first flash.. there's usually another one at the same time/slightly offset in time/space.

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Shooter on July 30, 2009, 02:36:12 PM

haha... with option B would you use the auto setting or night scene???

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: DragonSpeed on July 30, 2009, 03:11:40 PM

Quote from: Shooter on July 30, 2009, 02:36:12 PM

haha... with option B would you use the auto setting or night scene???

If your camera only has "fixed settings" try "sports" or maybe landscape.

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Every Day on July 30, 2009, 09:25:07 PM

My olympus had a lightening option...
Really missing my camera right now  :'(

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Rodney on July 30, 2009, 11:29:45 PM

For that first photo I took, I actually used a fast shutter speed and just clicked as soon as I spotted a lightning.

I was quite bummed to miss the opportunity to take some photos of last Saturday night's event. These are the best ones I've seen on the net so far, not sure if everyone can see this link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=128781&id=564958054&ref=share

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Shooter on July 31, 2009, 12:23:44 PM

Quote from: DragonSpeed on July 30, 2009, 03:11:40 PM

If your camera only has "fixed settings" try "sports" or maybe landscape.

i have a sony DSLR A200... just dont know how to use it properly yet!  i know i can change a whole bunch of things but it does have pre sets as well!  i think it has like A, S, M, P as options as well or something along those lines....

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: DragonSpeed on July 31, 2009, 05:35:46 PM

http://www.weatherscapes.com/techniques.php?cat=lightning&page=lightning
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-lightning

and generally:  http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+photograph+lightning&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7HPNN_en

Title: Re: Lightnings
Post by: Jaws on August 20, 2009, 08:47:50 AM

Great shot!