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Zooming in on this picture will show the detail in the lightning. Much better detail than I expected.
Taking pictures of lightning requires patience, patience I don't have... Unlike most of my subjects, I couldn't just waiting for lightning to strike then hit the shutter... By the time the picture would be taken, the lightning would be gone. So basically you really have to anticipate the lightning occurring BEFORE it actually does, but even then that doesn't always produce a picture of lightning...
Of the three pictures I took at this location, all of them got some lightning in the shot, but one was too blurry for posting... so that's a 66% success rate, pretty good for a first-timer, huh?
I got this shot of one of the myriad of lightning strikes during last night's impressive electric storm!
I set the aperture to f/5 and 'bulb' on the shutter speed and kept my finger on the button!! There were so many lightning strikes I hoped I'd catch one but I got two ! This one is nice as it's not so huge and bright as the other.
Apart from a little tweaking in Photoshop to reveal finer detail, this is pretty much how it came out of the camera.
A lightning storm over my house on the evening of 10/9/07. Taken with an Olympus Stylus 770 SW digital camera on 'Night Scene' mode.
Played around with lots of different lenses for shooting the storm.
Tried 70-200 f/2.8L, 100mm Macro, 50L, 16-35L.
This shot is with a 50mm f/1.2L
Over the years I've captured a lot of cool lightning strikes! I don't have super high-end equipment nor am I a professional by any means. But I know enough about video, photography, and light, to capture an occasional good still frame from high-framerate video clips I capture. I have used many iPhones and other smartphones for this. I now have a new mirror-less digital camera (Sony Alpha a6000) but have found that it does very poor at video even compared to the iPhone X. I'll probably stick to using Smartphones for the time being, even if the clips end up noisy and sometimes out of focus. If you have tips for improving my game, that don't involve spending thousands of dollars, feel free to comment!
We had a bit of a lightning storm last night. This about all the lightning I could capture from my driveway. The main part of the storm went to the west of us, but it rained pretty good for a while.