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Lightning Photography Question

 
wilky81
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Aug 09, 2008 19:01 |  #1

I'm somewhat new to the area of weather photography. I recently purchased an S5 and was wondering if anyone has some tips on taking pictures of Lightning. Any insights would be helpful.




  
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Aug 09, 2008 20:09 |  #2

Lightning photography.

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Aug 11, 2008 11:29 |  #3

Thanks for the reply. I looked some of the thread links below. I happened to have an opportunity to take some pictures of lightning on Saturday using my camera. I had the apeture set to f/6.3, ISO 100 and 1 sec shutter speed set to continue shot. And below are a couple images that I was able to get.


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Aug 12, 2008 09:15 |  #4

Good ones. I'd have stopped down more than f/6 though just for the lightning. You could always PS in a 2nd exposure of the foreground if you needed to see some detail in it.


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