Lightning Bolt from 7/10

[vash]

Last night we had a large storm move in and I finally got my first real chance do do some lightning Photography.

I used ISO 200 and F13 on the stock 350D lens.
Exposure was set on bulb and just wait for the strike,

[mnm]

Awesome photos! :eyepop:

For the bulb mode, did you have the shutter open and release it after the strike? Or was it some other method?

[iceman]

Wow, beautiful! I'm so keen to do some lightning photography but the storms always come from the wrong direction at my house, where I can't see them for the trees.

[h0ughy]

thats fantastic

[vash]

Yep, All I did was hold the shutter open then just release it after a strike.

I tried having a wider aperture but sky glow would make the clouds brown, to over come that I stopped the aperture down and lowered the ISO,, Lightning I realy Bright So I thought if you have fast setting you won't get any detail in the strike,

Mind you I think Luck has more to do with it that anything else,

[RB]

They look great, well done.

:thumbsup:

[petal666]

Really wish I had a vantage point for taking lightning photos. There was some great lightening last night.

[Astroman]

Keep the uncropped version, the cropped version looks too restrictive. You used a good combination of aperture and exposure, but I would go to a lower ISO, less noise and gives you better use of aperture as you wont need to stop it down as much.

[Tamtarn]

Great image, the uncropped version gives a nicely composed result.

[vash]

Yeah, I prefer the wide one myself too,

I'll give it a run through photoshop get rid of the noise and Print it out at a decent size.
At the moment there is a storm brewing but according to what I can see it will move north of here.

[Astroman]

Careful if your planning on going out in them, some of that hail can punch holes through glass like a hot knife through butter. Good luck if get more storms though. If your interested have a liik around this site>> www.bsch.au.com put together by a friend of mine, Ben quinn.

[joshman]

let's hope we in brisbane get it :D....thgough i don;t really have anywhere to take the photos from, i oculd do it out the front door, looking over Mt Coot-tha, but then you've got a muddle of powerlines and suburbia in the photo, but out the back could go alright....lets hope it swings south of here... :D

[sheeny]

Excellent shots! Well captured, Vash!:thumbsup:

I find minimum aperture and ISO works well for me - the lightning is always bright enough if you get it in the FOV.

Al.

[MortonH]

I've found that f/8 and ISO 100 works well for me. Took these in March this year with a Canon EOS 10D.

Morton

[vash]

those are nice, I'll have to get some more practice.

Don't know if anyone saw anything on the news about a severe that hit the Gold Coast, I work right in the path of it, when I pulled up to the car park it was raining fairly heavy got out locked the car headed for shelter got there, then the hail came, lasted 10 minutes or more, from what I can see my car came off alright, not many noticeable dints.
I have to work tonight and tomorrow night though so no chance to get anymore shots for me.