Quite a light show last night from the back verandah
Fortunately we were only on the edge of the storms that moved through the Brisbane valley last night so we only got part of the light show. It was worth setting up for a few shots though.
They are quite easy actually. The camera is definitely on a tripod, I'm using a cable release and ISO100. I live in a nice dark site and I don't have sky glow to worry too much about so I generally keep the shutter open for 30 - 40 sec, or until I get a strike. Then I shut immediately. When I lived in town I was limited to about 10-15 sec before the glow become noticeable. The lens was a 28-90 zoom and the images were cropped. I'd like to get a nice wide field prime for this sort of shooting as the zoom is too soft.
Fortunately we were only on the edge of the storms
Nicely captured Paul, nothing like the excitement of a good lightning storm. We had one here a week ago, our office lady lost her DVD recorder, TV, surround sound system and microwave oven all in one hit.
Yep I'm not even bothering to try to setup tonight Tony. Last night I dragged everything out to have another shot at McNaught only to pull it down once I had finished setting up I'll just sit on the back verandah with my trusty 300D and a tripod. It's already looking promising with the clouds getting above the hills to my south.
Paul, I did that last night too.. Set up everything, M102/C11, QHY8, autoguider, dew heaters, made cable looms for the setup, laptop... left it to cool down, came out about 20 mins later, and what had taken me over an hour and a half to set up took a max of 20mins to pull down before the skies opened up and dropped rain... Very frustrating.
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I'll just sit on the back verandah with my trusty 300D and a tripod. 
Set up everything, M102/C11, QHY8, autoguider, dew heaters, made cable looms for the setup, laptop... left it to cool down, came out about 20 mins later, and what had taken me over an hour and a half to set up took a max of 20mins to pull down before the skies opened up and dropped rain... Very frustrating.
