Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Ben_Jacobi]

There are no words to describe how cool that picture is. Great shot!

A little late to comment, but thank you Maggie.

 

[Zach Young]

I can't even come close to matching these photos, mostly because I've been chasing with a lousy point-and-shoot all season. Still, managed to get a few bolts by sheer chance!

May 23 2010, North of Goodland, KS: Twice in a row!

June 6 2010, East of Sterling, CO:

 

[Steve Miller TX]

 

[PFranklin]

Lawrence, KS a couple of summers ago

Shot from my driveway. Not technically the best pic, but the bolt certainly caught my attention:

 

[Richard Dickson]

Two of these won ribbons at the Pinal County Fair here in Arizona this year. Looks like I would have had some very serious competition if some of you other folks would have entered. There are some fantastic photos in this thread and I'm glad that people are sharing their love of the hobby.

 

[amytierney]

Here's two of mine from this May. Standing in Fulton, WI looking west.

 

[amytierney]

 

[Dean Gill]

Lake Geneva, Switzerland - July 2009

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

While everyone else was in NE on June 17, 2009 for the Aurora day. Atleast I got something that day. This was just off I-27 near Tulia, TX and is an 8 second exposure.

 

[JeffGonzales]

I got this just the other day 6-17-10 near Keister, MN

 

[Jeremy Jones]

6.23.10

I shot these last night....Best strikes for me all year!

 

[Greg Campbell]

I can't even come close to matching these photos, mostly because I've been chasing with a lousy point-and-shoot all season. Still, managed to get a few bolts by sheer chance!

Don't blame the camera!

With a tripod and long-ish exposure (try aperture priority at F6.7 or so), you can take decent lightning pics.

 

[Zach Young]

Don't blame the camera!

With a tripod and long-ish exposure (try aperture priority at F6.7 or so), you can take decent lightning pics.

I can too blame the camera! I've been shooting with a Nikon Coolpix L16. It is a basic point and shoot, without a lot of bells and whistles. It automatically adjusts the shutter time in low light, but only to a maximum of 1 second. It also attempts to auto-set the f-number. Pretty much just does whatever it wants.

I did set it on a tripod (gorillapod to be exact) recently near St Francis, KS. I still needed to take shots almost constantly to get anything, but a few of them turned out pretty neat.

 

[Zack Hargrove]

Taken last night in Asheville, NC around 10 pm (6/28/2010)

 

[Mark Ellinwood]

My best shot of 2010 (so far):

This was a screen grab from a 30 fps HD camcorder (Canon HG-10) on 6/24 in Northeast MD.