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Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

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New Mexico Lightning

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This was shot about 100 miles north of Roswell NM on Aug 18, 2009. We had followed a series of cells along the Texas/NM border looking for good lightning opportunities.
-Larry
 
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I failed at posting images hosted elsewhere correctly to this thread before, but here goes another try with simple attachments.

Best Night Shots. This was hard, so I will stick the top two both from the same evening. 5-3-2010 near Ziegler, IL
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Best Daytime Shot. 4-5-2010 near Odessa, MO
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Tough finding the best but here are a few.

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July 20, 2009 in the backyard

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July 27, 2009 close to home

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August 4, 2009 Eminence, MO strange blue color to the lightning.

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June 5, 2010 Same place as July 27 pic.
 
Lightning? WHAT Lightning? :/

Meh ... I'd love to be able to shoot lightning, but have NO luck with it. Only twice, three times I've actually caught a bolt? Usually, it's 200 plus stills, delete, delete, delete. :rolleyes:

Mine look like crud next to yours, but here's my two best. Loving your images!!
 

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taken at various points around security colorado. the last one makes me smile cause thats the same spot i had the tornado on 6/20/08. must be a magnetic spot for weather photos there :D
 

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Some terrific shots in this thread. Thanks everyone for posting them. Any particular techniques that you use to get them ?

Not having a lot of luck with this personally :(

Regards

Bill
 
Some terrific shots in this thread. Thanks everyone for posting them. Any particular techniques that you use to get them ?

Not having a lot of luck with this personally :(

Regards

Bill

Use a digital SLR camera (preferably digital) with a remote shutter release. Set the shutter to "bulb mode" so you can leave the shutter open for as long as you like. I try to get to the storm a little early to play with the aperature settings to adjust to the amount of light you are letting in. (evening shots will differ from night shots) Take a few practice shots counting how many seconds you leave the shutter open and ensure the exposure is where you want it... then click away!

Just don't get discouraged. I often take 100+ shots and may end up with only 1-5% of them having a lighting shot that I feel is worth printing. But the one shot always makes it worth it.

I also have the camera mounted on my dash board in the truck, so I can relocate easy and don't have to worry about getting the camera wet. May have to photoshop out a few rain drops from the windshield, but that's usually about it.

Good luck!

Chad
 
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