Dawn Thieme
EF0
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- Jul 26, 2009
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These are all awesome shots! I can't get lightning shots with my Fujifilm, so I will just sit back in awe of all of yours.
Brett Roberts
EF5
That's just sick. One of the most incredible lightning shots I've ever seen!
I've never managed to get CG's with an interesting foreground or background, but I like the transparent rain curtains and shelf cloud in this shot. It was taken just a mile from my apartment on the outskirts of Norman in June 2008.
Graham Butler
EF3
I can't find the one I wanted to post and I am too lazy to upload my sweet daytime shot from yesterday......so, here is one of my personal favorites........damn near ruined my 20D being soaked with rain. Shot with a 70-200L f/2.8
Chris Hayes
EF5
I've got quite a few lightning pictures and had a hard time deciding so here's a couple of mine
This last image was taken in film years ago and was scanned. Why it's grainy
This last image was taken in film years ago and was scanned. Why it's grainy
Martin Kucera
EF2
Over the Atlantic ocean
Jason Boggs
Now, that's a heck of a shot Martin. I'd be very proud to have taken that!
Doug Raflik
EF3
Doug Raflik
Stephen Titow
Thats awesome Doug, love how the left bolt has positioned itself over the top of the church.
Marko Korosec
EF4
This one could be my favourite shot, though its a hard choice...
-Marko
-Marko
Jeremy Jones
Awesome shots! I knew that by starting this thread, some amazing pieces of work would pop up! Here's another one of my favs...It was shot West of Stillwater, OK.
I often find shooting lightning in the daytime can be EXTREMELY frustrating! I have only a handful of daytime Lightning strikes. When I shoot lightning in the day, I try to stop my cam down to the slowest shutter speed I can achieve. This seems to help me with a better success rate, than jacking my cam up to say 1/3000 of second shutter speed. I also try and shoot in bursts of 3, every couple of seconds. Like I said it's very hit and miss it seems. I have heard of an attachment you can put on your cam, that can detect the step leader from a strike, and it opens your shutter just in time, but I haven't looked into it yet....Might be pretty cool to try!
Anyways, I often refer to this shot as my daytime masterpiece....Again It's in HDR (My preferred choice of editing).
I often find shooting lightning in the daytime can be EXTREMELY frustrating! I have only a handful of daytime Lightning strikes. When I shoot lightning in the day, I try to stop my cam down to the slowest shutter speed I can achieve. This seems to help me with a better success rate, than jacking my cam up to say 1/3000 of second shutter speed. I also try and shoot in bursts of 3, every couple of seconds. Like I said it's very hit and miss it seems. I have heard of an attachment you can put on your cam, that can detect the step leader from a strike, and it opens your shutter just in time, but I haven't looked into it yet....Might be pretty cool to try!
Anyways, I often refer to this shot as my daytime masterpiece....Again It's in HDR (My preferred choice of editing).
Adam Adkins
EF3
-Marko
That is the best one I've seen! Where was it taken / what are the technical specs of it?
Joseph Tyree
This was in Tulsa last July if I remember correctly...
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Scott Weberpal
EF5
Shot at 15mm...notice the positive streamers on the 2nd image which is a 100% crop.
Brandon Goforth
I'll go with this one from last August SE of Watonga, OK. Got some LP supercell action going there as well. 
Dean Baron
Supporter
Some incredible pictures in here. I think lightning is the most stunning element of a storm to get a photograph of.
These aren't nearly as good as most of the others, but the best I've gotten:
These aren't nearly as good as most of the others, but the best I've gotten:
