Thunder Struck! My first ever lightning captures

[ourkind]

Sooo excited, after scanning through more than 200 Raw images of these two seperate storms I came across two strikes.

The first image was taken late at night, the second image was taken a few days later just as the sun was setting in the back ground.

At this stage I'm just happy that I caught some lightning the next step will be to focus on framing too. Both times it was pouring and really windy so I constantly had to wipe the lens dry :)

Thanks for looking.

[Astroman]

well done on your first strikes. Like them both. and good luck in the future with capturing more.

[Larryp]

Good ones, Carlos! Particularly the first one

[leon]

Good effort Carlos, now that you have captured these two you will be waiting for every storm to pass by, well done,

Leon

[ourkind]

Thanks Andrew :)



Thanks Laurie :)



Thanks Leon :) You're absolutely right!!

[andyc]

Excellent images! Particularly the second one for me - nice foreground and framing, but both are very pretty. Looks like you might have the bug now!

[xstream]

Nice pics Carlos, I'm sure it would of been making Maria and the boys nervous though!

[skytry]

hi Carlos,
I like the pic's of the lightning strike's,
you did well,

regards,
Peter.

[ourkind]

Thanks Andy :) you're right I do :lol:



Thanks John :) Yes it was in the back of all our minds.


Thanks Peter :)

[FlashDrive]

Wow ....they're good ...1st photo has nice color.
Both are excellent.....

Flash ..!!

[astronobob]

Congratts Carlos, both well captured, it only gets better after the 1st's, before too long, youll be driving 100's of k's to get em :rover1:

[ourkind]

Cheers Flash! :) Particularly with the first image I had to reduce the highlight bar in RAW just to see it. Sitting there watching the storm pass was blinding



Cheers Bob! :) haha technically although it wasn't the point of the drive I drove 600k's and back for these ones :lol: But they've certainly left me itchin' for more!