Hi Guest!
Thanks. What speed would you normally recommend for catching lightning? I was using auto ISO to compensate for the dark. I was trying my darndest to balance a shutter speed fast enough to catch the lightning versus one slow enough to capture enough light to expose the details in the clouds.
Very nice....They are well executed!
I was looking at the sunset and snagged the second to last photo. I really liked what I saw on the screen in that one, so I figured I could frame a better shot by walking into the street and shooting straight down it.
Thanks Mitts.
You have proven that your reaction time is good enough to capture lightning at that speed. You can however shoot much slower, like 2 seconds or somewhere in between. Using auto ISO like you were, you'd meter just for the ambient light choosing shutter speed then adjusting the aperture. Even though the lightning is much brighter, it is short in duration (usually). An average bolt is about 1/10th of a second (I had to look that up). So with a 2 second shot, the sensor is only recording the bright light 1/20th of the time the shutter is open. The rest of that time the pixels are recording darkness which will be averaged once the photo is complete. Lightning is harder than using strobes because the amount of light reaching the camera can change in duration and intensity from each flash, affecting the exposure.
Good job! The sunset colors are quite the contrast to the surrounding sky.
Thank you.
The next time we have a storm I'll try that. Thanks for the advice.
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