Post your storms/lightning/wild nature shots here, kinda like our version of the weather channel.
I'll start, we had intense storms roll thru 9:30pm-ish EDT tonight.
While it ruined my plan at capturing lightning bugs, the opportunity to capturing some cool lighting bolts replaced that, go with the moment I say.
What a show!
Took these on my front porch - it faces east and offers shelter from most storms, camera on tripod.
Each is 5 second exposure, camera automatically took over 500 via remote, I deleted all but these 11. The one "Blue" is transformer blowing up due to lighting strike, we lost power for 5-7 minutes.
These are all in sequence of storm, 9:52pm - 10:45pm EDT.
All are 5 second exposures, f11, ISO400, 18mm. I took some test shots and that combo "worked" upon quick examination of LCD screen, no cropping done, very minor PP, mainly exposure dialed down due to lightning bolt extremely bright/nearby.
Manually focused the home in background, then slightly tweaked the focus ring trying for infinity, I got close on the focus.
Memo: I need to mark the lens infinity focus point.
The ones where you see my porch top beam, lots of rain/wind so the camera/tripod was at the back of my 8' deep porch, once the rain eased up I moved the tripod further w/o camera getting wet (My T1i would NOT like to get wet)
All clickable to 1600 pix size
I'll start, we had intense storms roll thru 9:30pm-ish EDT tonight.
While it ruined my plan at capturing lightning bugs, the opportunity to capturing some cool lighting bolts replaced that, go with the moment I say.
What a show!
Took these on my front porch - it faces east and offers shelter from most storms, camera on tripod.
Each is 5 second exposure, camera automatically took over 500 via remote, I deleted all but these 11. The one "Blue" is transformer blowing up due to lighting strike, we lost power for 5-7 minutes.
These are all in sequence of storm, 9:52pm - 10:45pm EDT.
All are 5 second exposures, f11, ISO400, 18mm. I took some test shots and that combo "worked" upon quick examination of LCD screen, no cropping done, very minor PP, mainly exposure dialed down due to lightning bolt extremely bright/nearby.
Manually focused the home in background, then slightly tweaked the focus ring trying for infinity, I got close on the focus.
Memo: I need to mark the lens infinity focus point.
The ones where you see my porch top beam, lots of rain/wind so the camera/tripod was at the back of my 8' deep porch, once the rain eased up I moved the tripod further w/o camera getting wet (My T1i would NOT like to get wet)
All clickable to 1600 pix size
The most powerful bolt, it was so bright had to dial down exposure -2.25 via Post Processing
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I like how this follows the horizon
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This is transformer blowing up @ substation 1.5 miles away on Old US23, we lost power 5-7 minutes until circuits switched over to another line.
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