I Struck Lightning

[arne saknussen]

I know there are much better photos of lightning, some probably taken by other members, but I was so excited to have finally captured one.
So, too much darkness on the top?

[n8]

yeah, having so much cloud doesn't add much...unless you're like me and were just stoked to have gotten a good shot. I like the bird.

[armando_m]

one lucky bird

[cozmocha]

Nice! I still don't have lightning. What settings did you use? From what I understand alot of people use shutter speeds of 10 to 30 seconds.

[n8]

I use between 4-8 seconds. I think the one I posted in viewfinder was 4 seconds. The downside of using really long exposures (for my camera anyway), is that anything longer than 6 sec requires some recording time rather then allowing me to just hit the remote trigger again the second I hear the shutter close.