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Old 22-11-2006, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by plasmodium
It was surreal.... 5pm was like 8pm - dark! the sun was crimson red through the smoke and sunset, and the clouds/smoke drifting past produced partial eclipse like crescents out of the sun.... felt like an alien planet.....

Houghy - how do you do your lightning shots? - aperture/speed etc - I've never been able to get a good balance between exposure time - too short and miss them all, too long and overexpose!
hand held or tripod mount(mine were all handheld) set focus to infinity, and exposure to program(auto), and the iso setting high, 400-1600. then point and shoot when you see the light. helps train your reaction time. oh and manually click onthe shutter. night shots are longer exposures on the tripod manual setting of course
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