Nice catch! I would suggest putting the camera in something like landscape/scenic mode, where the camera is focused to infinity. And, if your cam will do it in this mode, a long exposure, say, five seconds or more in a frequent strike storm.

Timing the pressing of the button on a digital camera for something this precise is teh suck.

Also, small aperture setting. Lightning is bright.

Truth in advertising: I've never caught a decent lightning strike.

I have an app for my iPhone which is supposed to capture strike photos. Unfortunately, we haven't had enough stormy weather this year for me to even begin to try it out.

I was about to give advice earlier and then remembered that all my lightning pictures suck. :(

Well first, yer hafta catch the lightning in a jar. Then yer can photo it all yer likes. :p

Well feel free to visit here for a day or so then... my back yard is literally growing algae from all the stinking rain. Ugh.

Better?

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Set up your camera on a tripod.
Set for small aperture.
Set for long exposure.
Fly a kite with copper wire.

holy hell V!!!! hell yeah that's better! that's freakin' awesome!!

i tried landscape as well but didn't get any shots. well, i got plenty. just after the strikes. the one i caught here i was holding down the button and taking frame after frame after frame and got lucky.

bruce, i'll try that only without the kite! :)

I'm so glad you like it.

As for tips, here's a page that summarizes what I would have suggested.

cool link V, thanks!!

lightning trigger...huh. that's pretty cool!

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my attempts with a lightning shot out over the golf course using time lapse did not net any lightning BOLTS .... they were all inside the thunderstorm cloud.

Nice. :thumb:

very cool

very VERY cool! :D

that's a great pic!!