This is my weather for the last 2 days. Hi Res. Pics.
10-03-2006, 01:12 AM
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This is my weather for the last 2 days. Hi Res. Pics.
It has been stormin like crazy here for the last two days. Check out the pics.
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I stood in my patio doors for about an hour and a half. I took about 60 or so pics! Needless to say it is very hard to catch lightning without a fast shutter. I did my best though most of them were too slow. It stormed like that for about 6 or so hours straight yesterday! The most I have seen in one day.
10-03-2006, 07:44 AM
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Awesome pics! We're supposed to get some storms here, potentially severe, and I ain't had much chance to play with my new camera...
Hmmm......
Hmmm......
10-03-2006, 01:34 PM
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Check out this bad boy. That'* ONE monster bolt:
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Can you manually set the shutter speed on your camera? If you can, set it on the slowest speed possible, mount the camera on a tripod, push the button halfway down to autofocus (shadow!
), then click a shot & hope lightning strikes. I took about 100 pictures of nothing but black sky - my shutter would stay open for about 8 seconds - but if I was lucky enough to have the shutter open and was pointed at the right part of the sky, I got things like this. Very little skill and a great amount of luck!
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Can you manually set the shutter speed on your camera? If you can, set it on the slowest speed possible, mount the camera on a tripod, push the button halfway down to autofocus (shadow!
), then click a shot & hope lightning strikes. I took about 100 pictures of nothing but black sky - my shutter would stay open for about 8 seconds - but if I was lucky enough to have the shutter open and was pointed at the right part of the sky, I got things like this. Very little skill and a great amount of luck!
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Thanks for the tip. Thats a great shot. I will have to look into that. Although I only took about 60 total and got the pics shown. I only have a 10" tripod so I would need a table. LOL! Thanks for the comments everyone. I am glad to say the sun has been out all day today finally. 
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Originally Posted by Blownville
Thanks for the tip. Thats a great shot. I will have to look into that. Although I only took about 60 total and got the pics shown. I only have a 10" tripod so I would need a table. LOL! Thanks for the comments everyone. I am glad to say the sun has been out all day today finally.
Never could make that work. If I could figure out how to hold my shutter open longer than 8 seconds I'd have better luck capturing more flashes!