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All year I have been looking forward to the storms so that I could take some photos of lightning again. I've tried a few times in the past months from my backyard with few results. However today I decided I'd chase down a storm and get a good angle on it and this is what I got:














It's been about 2 years since Ive gotten a good lightning photo, today was something very special for me  ;D

Took them only about 30 min ago  :D I'll spend some time and do some better post processing as I just noticed that stupid 75 sign in the bottom of the pics. Nothing a little photo chopping cant fix  ;)

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

Reflexes like a cat  ;)


Pretty simple actually, just set the camera to a long exposure. These range from 40 sec to about 5 minutes at an F-stop of f/11 for the first then f/8 for the rest.

Oh alright, I didn't even think of that. I was just picturing you sitting there mashing the shutter button every flash you saw, haha.

Now THAT'S what I call a decent thunderstorm! What a way to catch those amazing bolts!  :o

WOW

very very very very good

i remember a thunderstorm about2 years ago it was like the bigest in 50 years

but i was young and didnt have a camera or power

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

Reflexes like a cat

 8-)

WOW! That's amazing.

8-)

Nice catch!!  Great work!!!

Thanks for the replys!

Camera was at an ISO of 100, I usually keep it at that whenever I can to reduce noise. Unfortunately with long exposures noise just comes naturally.  

This was hardly a big storm compared to some we've had. In fact there was a bigger storm just behind those mountains you see in the background, and to give you an idea of my location, just behind those mountains is Mexico.

Nice. 8-)

oh my Hubert Cumberdale! amazing pics! you should sell them for like a trillion dollars! or maybe 50 dollars... either way those are awesome!