So tonight there was quite the lightningstorm over the skies of Toronto and area. While the photos are somewhat marred by the fact that I was shooting through a screen, they give an idea to just how dramatic it was. Several hours of lightning and thunderstorm, with a bucket of rain to boot. It was fantastic!
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A Few Shots from the Toronto Lightningstorm
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Thats really cool! How do you take photos of lightning? Everytime i want to take a photo it disappears! 🙁
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You want to set your shutter speed very slow, stop down your aperture and set it to a low ISO. A tripod is a must!
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Hand held - 30 seconds - second try - got lucky ....... need a tripod
Bingo. My tripod is in storage, so I rested my camera on a pillow/ledge. I believe my settings were 4 seconds at F10, at ISO 400...which resulted in alot of black, but the lightning was so intense that it was almost blown out whenever I lucked out and did catch a bolt. I think I took about 250 photos, only got 8 with anything in them at all. All a matter of luck!
I believe I read somewhere that http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK enables some motion detector trigger thing which is fast enough for lightening. Night shots btw.