share your lightning photos

Had another storm blow through last night. Didn't get anything spectacular, but got a few cool looking shots.
http://www.flickr.com …1/sets/72157629​963211130/

took this last night. my first lightning photo with multiple strikes.

There are some really great shots in here! I captured my first bolt tonight @ 1/160th.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/itshotinhere_im​onfire/

Mike, in the last one, did the lighting strike the VAB? or just behind it.

Mike Deep wrote in post #14522825
I like the idea of a running lightning thread, let's keep this going.

Man, that second one looks pretty close. The 3rd is a cool capture, bolt from the blue.

Shawnc wrote in post #14986636
I played around a little bit a few years back. I really enjoyed the surprisies I found when getting home from shooting lightning and loading them into the computer to see what I captured.
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Keebert, I think I would crop all the dead space to the right out, These are very cool captures.

Keebert wrote in post #14995067

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wow. some great shots on here

stargazer77517 wrote in post #15082372
Man, that second one looks pretty close. The 3rd is a cool capture, bolt from the blue.

Yeah, That second shot didn't scare me until I got home and saw the shot and the EXIF. That one was shot at 35mm, so needless to say, was definately a close strike. When I do these shots I just basically open the shutter and get distracted with other things until I close the shutter. In this case, the old saying is true, "What you don't know won't hurt you"...

I don't know if this counts, but due to problems with the long exposure doing a dark frame removal at every picture, I was missing many lightning bolts. So, I opted to use video and extract the frames from that. You may say that it's kind of cheating, but I did get some decent results I think. Here is one of the captures.

naddieuk wrote in post #15097091
I don't know if this counts, but due to problems with the long exposure doing a dark frame removal at every picture, I was missing many lightning bolts. So, I opted to use video and extract the frames from that. You may say that it's kind of cheating, but I did get some decent results I think. Here is one of the captures.

The photo on the Flickr page

Wow! The only problem is that even with a 1920 x 1080p HD video, a still shot will only be 2.07 Megapixels.
(1920 times 1080 to get total number of pixels (2,073,600) divided by one million, because a megapixel is a million pixels, comes out to 2.0736 MP)
so unfortunately, video stills usually are not very useable.