tips to good lightning photos please

[tikkeltokkel]

i took some photos of lightning the other evening and was wondering how to avoid excessive noise (if at all possible) 45 sec exposures iso 100.... please can someone tell me of a good lightning phots site..

Mike

[timmyquest]

So your taking photos of lights and are seeing much noise at long exposures?
What camera?

Are you asking aobut lighting techniques for human, animal, or products? If so you may find more help in the "talk about photography" section.

[tikkeltokkel]

lightNing timmy ....... help with lightning photos not lighting ... Thanks

10D 100iso

[tpinchback]

when I shoot lighting I use the bulb seting on the camera and set the ISO to 100 and use different apatures depending of the condition. I hold down the shutter button until the lighting strikes then release right after it disappears

[timmyquest]

Oh me oh my.

You'll have to forgive my ignorance.

I missed the n in lightNing

Check out this site

www.lightningboy.com
I talk to his brother on another forum...the guy is prety darn amazing!

[Jim_T]

i took some photos of lightning the other evening and was wondering how to avoid excessive noise (if at all possible) 45 sec exposures iso 100.... please can someone tell me of a good lightning phots site..

Mike

The above lighting photography link tells about all of it..

There's one tip I can share that isn't there and will really help if you have the RS-80N remote switch.

I set the camera to manual and dial in someting like 15 seconds at f/16 (You have to experiment to make sure the scene isn't overexposed.. It depends on how dark it is)

Now you can point the camera at an approaching storm, towards where the most lightning is. Put the camera in multi-shot mode, then lock the remote shutter control. (It has a feature that lets you lock it in the closed position).

The camera will start taking 15 second exposures back to back at 4 per minute. Just leave the camera and check on it now and then. 15 seconds at ISO 100 won't introduce any noise, but if you add up the total exposure time of all the 15 second shots, you can grab an easy 15 - 20 minutes of the sky.

Go through the shots when you're done and pick out the ones with the best lightning.

Works great !