Some lightning from Sydney this evening

[pluto (Hugh)]

I took these about an hour ago from the balcony at work.
They came out alright considering I took them handheld

[gregbradley]

Great photos. That storm had hail at my place in Kurrajong.

Greg.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks Greg, glad we haven't had hail here, my car isn't under cover

[Occulta (Chris)]

Interesting cloud formations there Hugh.

Well captured

Chris

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Excellent shots. Great looking storm front too.

[RB (Andrew)]

Very cool shots Hugh.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Beautiful shots Hugh. Very nice detail and shapes in the clouds.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks guys, glad you like them

[h0ughy (David)]

awesome shots

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks Houghy

[alan meehan (Alan)]

some great storm front shots ,well done for hand held
AL

[leon]

Love em, nice captures indeed.

Leon

[Hoges (John)]

Great photos! How did you capture the lightning? I normally have to leave the camera on a tripod on bulb or 30 seconds - I figure you either must have taken a load of photos or there was loads of lightning!!

[Ric]

Lovely work Hugh

The cloud formations look so surreal.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks Guys!

John - it was a bit of both. There was a strike about every 20 seconds so I was just pointing the camera in the general direction, with a relatively slow shutter speed of about 1/10th of a second (good thing I had IS on that lens!), and took about 20 shots at a time (until the buffer filled and started to slow down). I think I took about 250 shots over about 5 minutes and got about 10 with decent lightning.