GuitarFreak wrote in post #12491089
When it was a bit lighter out, I just kept shooting hoping to get a bolt. When it got dark, I'd do a 20-30 second exposure and hope for the best. It's mostly luck, good timing, and looking in the right direction.
When it was a bit lighter out, I just kept shooting hoping to get a bolt. When it got dark, I'd do a 20-30 second exposure and hope for the best. It's mostly luck, good timing, and looking in the right direction.
Thanks!
Mike Deep wrote:
Not a lot of point to triggers since you miss the first strike with the initial stepped leader and branches. Something has to set the trigger off, after all, and the shutter isn't instantaneous, it has a 60ms delay. So what you'll end up with in most situations is either nothing or a single return channel, depending on shutter speed and the number and frequency of return strokes. Now there are some situations in which you get a great big cascade of lightning bolts, usually anvil crawlers, where a trigger could still pick up quite a lot of action. Thing is, you could trigger the camera reflexively in such a situation with just as much success.
At twilight/night the strategy is simple: Long shutter speeds in sequence. ISO and aperture controls the exposure of the lightning as if it were a flash unit. The lightning's brightness is usually dependent on distance and what's in the air (A rain shaft, for instance, will obscure lightning completely).
Not a lot of point to triggers since you miss the first strike with the initial stepped leader and branches. Something has to set the trigger off, after all, and the shutter isn't instantaneous, it has a 60ms delay. So what you'll end up with in most situations is either nothing or a single return channel, depending on shutter speed and the number and frequency of return strokes. Now there are some situations in which you get a great big cascade of lightning bolts, usually anvil crawlers, where a trigger could still pick up quite a lot of action. Thing is, you could trigger the camera reflexively in such a situation with just as much success.
At twilight/night the strategy is simple: Long shutter speeds in sequence. ISO and aperture controls the exposure of the lightning as if it were a flash unit. The lightning's brightness is usually dependent on distance and what's in the air (A rain shaft, for instance, will obscure lightning completely).
That's what I was thinking. Light is the fastest thing out there. There's no way electric communication can travel fast enough. I forgot the concept of treating the lightning as flash and was thinking long shutter plus lighting can be a cause for over exposure. Very well explained. Thanks!
