Photographing Lightning
My attempt at photographing lightning...
Full size here: http://www.bennyeast.com/share/2011/20110821.jpg
OK... soooooo this storm just rolled up and I grabbed my camera... and was just like whoa those are some MEAN clouds! So I started taking pics of the clouds. THEN I started to see lightning on the horizon...
SO, I attempted to capture some shots... at first I got nothing. Then I waited and sat by my window and still nothing. So I gave up for a little bit. Then I got my camera again and decided to give it another shot. I got this picture... I got SOOOOOO excited about it that I put my camera in view mode and stared at the little strike. Then I decided to tweet about it. Wooooo I got a lightning strike on camera!
After I post the tweet... I go back to the couch and stare out the window thinking... what are the ODDS I'd actually capture that?
Then...
...as I'm staring out the window thinking about picking my camera back up to see if I can get more...
a GIANT strike... it was only a second or 2 between seeing the strike and hearing the thunder so it was LITERALLY JUST BEHIND THAT BUILDING... it ran basically exactly where the other strike was but in front of the clouds but behind the building.
This thing was just WOW... lit up the whole sky!
Nooooooooooo!!!!
I missed it. I thought the little itty bitty one was as good as it got that I totally missed the big one! Now it was a huge strike that lasted maybe a full half second or second... so it's tough to say if I would have tapped the button quick enough to get the shot... but it would have made a MAGNIFICENT photograph!
The little itty bitty strike came in a whole group, so I think I just got lucky with getting the tail end of a bunch of little strikes.
I liken it to fishing... maybe the big one got away... but for my first time trying to reel one in... at least I got something!
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