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Nothing too exciting on here, about 2 or 3 times a year I try to get some shots of lightning. Lightning seems to be more of about luck than anything else, your best chances are right before or after the storm when its not raining and you can see actual streaks of lightning, not just flashes in the sky. Rain, fog, clouds can all mess with your ability to see the lightning as well so some times it doesnt go that well.



This was taken off my front porch, it was pouring at the time so I was standing outside with a piece of poster board over my camera (do not have an umbrella).







After 5 minutes or so the storm had moved too far east to see any good streaks over the sky right by my house so I decided to drive up to the top of the close by mountain. In my mind I thought I might get a view of lightning from this exact same view (taken last fall)









Not too much luck here at all, got a few nice streaks in the frame but all were so far off in the distance and have so much rain and fog inbetween the lens and the lighting (gonna guess 5 miles away) that it appeared very soft. After 5 minutes or so I gave up and went back home.

Can you explain to my ignorant mind how exactly you get pictures of that?

Im leaving the shutter of the camera open long enough to record the light from the streak of lightning. The same technique is used for photos of water or streams where it looks silky, or pictures of a road at night where all you see are streaks of light from car head lights, tail lights, etc.

Cool picture.

The picture you got turned out pretty good. The sky coloring looks really cool. I tried fo a long time to get picutures of lightning. I think out of about 10 rolls of film (that was in the olden days when people used to use film) I got one that was ok.

Thank you.







Did you shoot all 10 in the same night or over a period of time? Ive never had a problem shooting film (when I can process and print myself). When I was in class and taking film classes I would usually shoot 2-3 roles per project, my girlfriend would usually shoot a roll or two more than I did. Then everyone else in the class would shoot 3 pictures and act like it was too much work to shoot a whole roll.



Not that the number of photos counts or anything, I just really enjoyed it, especially when I could watch the results unfold before my eyes.

@afrobigfoot 182461 wrote:Thank you.







Did you shoot all 10 in the same night or over a period of time? Ive never had a problem shooting film (when I can process and print myself). When I was in class and taking film classes I would usually shoot 2-3 roles per project, my girlfriend would usually shoot a roll or two more than I did. Then everyone else in the class would shoot 3 pictures and act like it was too much work to shoot a whole roll.



Not that the number of photos counts or anything, I just really enjoyed it, especially when I could watch the results unfold before my eyes.



yeah I took a photo class last spring that was a ton of work and really hard. Its pretty sweet when your printing and you see the picture coming up. Its just a lot of work. I wasnt spectacular with printing. It always took me forever. I always shot 2-3 rolls per project. My favorite project was a da da project, where everyone shot 2 rolls, we put them in a basket and collected them and made double exposures. It was very interesting and a lot of fun.

sweet lightning pic though. I'd like to see more.

@afrobigfoot 182461 wrote:Thank you.







Did you shoot all 10 in the same night or over a period of time? Ive never had a problem shooting film (when I can process and print myself). When I was in class and taking film classes I would usually shoot 2-3 roles per project, my girlfriend would usually shoot a roll or two more than I did. Then everyone else in the class would shoot 3 pictures and act like it was too much work to shoot a whole roll.



Not that the number of photos counts or anything, I just really enjoyed it, especially when I could watch the results unfold before my eyes.





I did it over one summer. There was a great place that over looked Atlanta that I used to go to to shoot the pictures. It was a parking deck that was on top of a rather large hill. The legend is that it is the same hill that Sherman stood and watched Atlanta burn. On special occations storms would come up from the south so you could get the back drop of the city with the lightning. Last time I went up there security told me I had to leave, whatever. Sometimes I will sneak up there for a few minuets if a good storm is over the city. I would like to do more photography but just can't find the time.

What the hell is a Skigle?