Pinyix

A storm passed through last night so I setup in the driveway with my tripod and tinkered with difference settings. I kept taking pictures till it started to rain but even so, these are remarkably underwhelming.

I first tried a 15 second shutter and failed miserably. I then brought it down to about a 1/2 second shutter and had the camera shoot continuously. It left a mess of bad shots to clean up on the memory card, but this was the only way I got any half decent shots(if you can even say they're that good).

I suppose I learned a lot though... that is, I know several ways I shouldn't do this in the future.






Out of around 150 shots taken, I kept 18 and shared 4, only two of which actually had lightning really. Pathetic.

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you take these at dusk? i usually try to shot at night then i just set the camera to bulb. it's alot harder then it looks eh? just keep on trying you'll see better results.

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Pinyix

How long do you usually hold the shutter? Do you wait till you get a bunch of lightning then release? Is it always more than 5 seconds or less than 20 or something?

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bandoni™

at full night i leave it open for about 2 to 3 minutes or until a lot of lighting has gone off. at dusk time it is harder because it gets bright to fast so i usually leave it open for only a few seconds at a time, I have some pics of this technique i will upload into this thread to show you tomorrow.

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nice attempts, i like that last one

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bandoni™

heres some shots i took a couple of days ago i opened the shutter for about 10 to 15 seconds. these would have been great if the damn powerlines hadn't been in the way, oh well live and learn i guess. this technique is good at dusk time, but you can use the 2 to 3 minutes one at full dark. just practice on opening the shutter at different intervals till you find one you like.






shooting lighting at dusk offers its own challenges, thats why i only did this once. I am sure with more practice i could master it but i love to just leave the shutter open and catch as much as possible then closing it when i think it's been enough. I am glad your so interested in this type of photography, it's kind of one of the reasons i wanted a dslr so i could do this.

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It was your first light painting thread that put me over the top on buying a dSLR. The massive improvement in picture quality aside, theres so much more you can do with a dSLR camera. If you remember my pictures with my old camera, I had a bit of an obsession with low lighting though my S500 wasn't suited for it. My buddy was showing me how to do cool push/pull effects the other day and when I get home and download my pictures, I'll have a few cool ones with my car.

Anyway, I'll keep playing with things. A big issue with the pictures in the OP was they were just cloud to cloud and weren't very intense at all. Hopefully I'll be able to catch a more intense storm.

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I am glad i inspired you, these dslr are great for low light pictures. I have a friend with a d40x and he's almost got me talked into a external flash with some gels, i was looking through some of his stuff and he gets very creative with that flash. heres a link to his flickr account check some of his stuff out http://www.flickr.com/photos/colbyjoe/
hopefully you'll catch a good storm soon so you'll get some more practice in once you get that first great shot in you'll be hooked lol.

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