Nearby lightning strike

This was loud!
30sec, ISO100, f/6.3, 12mm

Real nice. Isn't it great when you do long exposures and the lightning cooperates!

If a strike has so much power....then what has the power to alter its path....you would think point a to point b would be the connecting point...btw, great shot

Wow! That is simply stunning!

turbotony wrote in post #10594231
If a strike has so much power....then what has the power to alter its path....you would think point a to point b would be the connecting point...btw, great shot

????
If it's not connecting from point a to point b, then where is it connecting? Lightning likes the usual cloud to cloud or cloud to ground point.

Great shot!

Did you use a ND filter?

awesome shot. How did you get it focused so well? And how was this not blown out with 30 sec exposure (my guess, it was completely dark and the lightning was the only light souce?)

turkleten wrote in post #10596577
Great shot!

Did you use a ND filter?

No filters

kezug wrote in post #10599988
awesome shot. How did you get it focused so well? And how was this not blown out with 30 sec exposure (my guess, it was completely dark and the lightning was the only light souce?)

You guess correctly. Manual mode and a couple of test shots for a "proper" exposure, then I stopped down the aperture to get to 1 stop underexposed since I knew the lightning would illuminate the scene too.

Focus was manually on infinity and checked with live view.

Caught that at 12mm??? That was a heck of a close lightening strike!!

The primary shaft has shifted to the left, usually due to very strong winds. Were they a blowin"?

Naturalist wrote in post #10601616
Caught that at 12mm??? That was a heck of a close lightening strike!!

Yea, it was close alright. Just a couple of streets over in our little subdivision. Less than 1000' I'd bet.

G3G4G5 wrote in post #10601621
The primary shaft has shifted to the left, usually due to very strong winds. Were they a blowin"?

Maybe 30kts or so. Not horrible. I noticed the shafts too and thought it might be a reflection from the double paned glass I was shooting through but then none of the other parts have it.

One thing I seem to remember from Meteorology classes about lightning is that there's a primary bolt from the cloud to the ground then a secondary one back up. And its not an exact parallel the whole way. In this picture it seems to lose it a little up top and on the bottom

Yeah, that is a good lighting shot. Hell of a storm the other day, too bad I was taking care of the kids, couldn't get out and shoot...

Nice shot

that is awesome!

It looks like it's hitting that house just beyond the trees .

Good shot !