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Originally Posted by rander7823
CLA,
Was this time lapse, camera the senses light,frames from a video feed or are you just quick on the shutter?
Just curious how you got such great pictures
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This storm amazed me. Normally I shoot lightning with the camera on a tripod and leave the shutter open in hopes of catching some lightning. This time I noticed most of the lightning bolts were hanging in the air for 2-3 seconds each, with each strike pulsing a number of times. That was longer than my reaction time + my shutter speed combined, so I decided to try it. I just aimed the camera at the lake as for any other snapshot, then snapped the picture as soon as I saw it.
Lightning has to be really intense for this to be possible, so these photos are a commentary on how much energy those storms had.
The photo of the MOUNT was done on a tripod with a 4-second exposure. I did about 25 frames of that same shot (each with the ship a little further down the lake,) but that was the only one with lightning.
These were all from my regular camera and not the web cam - though the web cam did catch one lightning bolt over Bear Island it wasn't a very good pic because the sky got too dark for the Netcam - and it wasn't even sunset yet.
Did anyone else see that incredible sunset we had after those storms?