kb9tdj Senior Member  More info | Apr 02, 2009 21:00 | #1 I used to do some lightning shots back in the old film days, but this is my first try with my 50D. Had a storm front come through earlier this evening and hit this.  Scott
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Tiger_993 Senior Member  553 posts Likes: 1 Joined Apr 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN More info | Apr 02, 2009 21:41 | #2 Great shot! 5DM2 + BG-E6 | 50 1.4 | TS-E 17L | 16-35L | 135L | 70-200 f/4L IS
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spife7980 Member 120 posts Joined Feb 2009 Location: central texas More info | Apr 02, 2009 22:06 | #3 yeah very cool. looks like one of those tesla coil plasma balls where you touch it and the spark follows you. 40D | 18-55mm IS I 10-22 I| 70-200mm f/4 L USM
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Grimes Goldmember 1,323 posts Likes: 1 Joined Mar 2006 More info | Apr 03, 2009 00:12 | #4 wow, I hope you were safe where you were standing! Alex
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glenne79 Member 35 posts Joined Sep 2008 Location: Australia More info | Apr 03, 2009 00:39 | #5 perfect timing
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Apr 03, 2009 08:18 | #6 Grimes wrote in post #7656988  wow, I hope you were safe where you were standing! I was sitting on my front porch under roof. I guess it was safe enough since I'm here to talk about it! Scott
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MidnightSun Goldmember  1,204 posts Likes: 1 Joined Feb 2009 Location: Afton, VA / Korat, Thailand More info | Great shot.I am always hoping for a good storm to pass thru..... Dave
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pantherphotos Goldmember  1,314 posts Likes: 2 Joined Nov 2008 Location: Marysville, WA More info | Apr 03, 2009 09:07 | #8 Wow! That is incredible. I would love to get a shot like that! Alas, we don't get too many good thunderstorms where I live. Eric
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jgrussell Looking around nervously  18,758 posts Likes: 14 Joined May 2008 Location: NJ USA More info | Apr 03, 2009 09:11 | #9 Very nice!! -- jgr
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Apr 03, 2009 10:57 | #10 pantherphotos wrote in post #7658264 Wow! That is incredible. I would love to get a shot like that! Alas, we don't get too many good thunderstorms where I live. I saw your shutter speed was 30 seconds and ISO was 100. Did you try and and time it or just hold the shutter open and see what you get? Thanks! I really didn't try to time the shot; I just shot in manual mode with a 30 sec exposure and hoped for the best. I would have used bulb mode, but I don't yet have a remote shutter control for my camera. So I ended up just shooting about 50-60 30 sec shots and this is the shot that happened to hit. At least I didn't have to worry about wasting film like in the old days; it's great to have "free" exposures. Scott
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Apr 03, 2009 11:46 | #11 Excellent shot !! I too do not get the chance to shoot lightning very often. That is a keeper for sure. Done with Numbers. Own the X and the R
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MidnightSun Goldmember 1,204 posts Likes: 1 Joined Feb 2009 Location: Afton, VA / Korat, Thailand More info | Apr 03, 2009 13:33 | #12 kb9tdj wrote in post #7659083 Thanks! At least I didn't have to worry about wasting film like in the old days; it's great to have "free" exposures. No doubt...! One of the best things about DSLR's... Dave
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Apr 03, 2009 16:18 | #13 MidnightSun wrote in post #7660316 No doubt...! One of the best things about DSLR's...  Makes astro shooting a bit less costly as well.....I used to do a lot of astro shooting on my vintage 1975 Criterion 6" Dynascope (which I still have by the way!). I just remember shooting rolls and rolls of Tri-X and then turning our bathroom into a darkroom for the weekend to make the prints. After I graduated from IU-Bloomington, I kept in touch with one of my astronomy professors (I was an astrophysics major) and he gave me keys to the on-campus telescope after I graduated (12" f/15 refractor - hell of a lunar & planetary scope). A buddy and I used to go down there on the weekends and shoot tons of film with the old Minolta SRT-201 body. Ah.....the good old days..... Scott
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Cobra351 Goldmember  2,996 posts Likes: 4 Joined Sep 2003 Location: Virginia, USA More info | That was a pretty intense burst, well captured. Canon 5D Mark II
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clark.moeller Member  102 posts Joined Jul 2008 Location: Manitoba, Canada More info | Apr 04, 2009 20:11 | #15 The color of the sky is beautiful. I'm going to try to do a few of these shots of my on come summer. Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 10-22 f/3.5-4.5 | Canon EF 35 f/1.4 L | Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8 L | Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS | Canon EF 135 f/2.0 L | Canon EF 200 f/2.8 L
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