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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep
Taken with 400D and 18-55mm lens, on tripod, one of last weeks storms, a little blurry but its hard to focus in a storm!!!
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Know the problem, OBMY.
For lightning shots, try focussing on something in the target area (at night it might have to be a street light or something) and then locking focus. I often can't actually do that so I manually focus on infinity, usually with a wide angle lens, stop the aperture down to at least f/8 (but sometimes I've gone all the way to f/22) to increase the depth of field a bit, then with the camera on a tripod, take the longest images you can (within reason).
I also usually turn the in camera noise reduction off to reduce time between shots, and take continuous photos. Later just go through them and delete the shots without any lightning in them. During day/twilight some neutral density filters will help keep the exposure times long and so increase the chances of catching the lightning. I have an ND4 and an ND8 which still isn't enough for daytime for my liking but they help during twilight.
It's a bit more agricultural than having a lightning trigger, but it works.
Great first attempt!
Al.