Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 35: Shooting Lightning

Do you want to know how to photograph lightning? In this episode Mark gives you 8 tips to help you get great lightning shots.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• snapfactory
• mark wallace
• digital photography
• lightning
• manual mode
• adoramatv

[NoSoldat4u]

1 person doesn't have a camera with the 30 sec. shutter function, LOL

[Dimacheari]

Tip 9: When using a tripod, turn off the VC / IS. Sometimes it tries to stabilize the vibrations in your surroundings (bouncing leaves), instead of your shaky hand or camera.

[fujimeira]

@cfdeastwood REally thanks, man. I guess it was the case. Now i can properly shoot... too bad that the storm season in my region is now gone... I hope for the next year lol

[cfdeastwood]

@fujimeira - I could be wrong here but I think the 60D has built in noise reduction.  Try going into the settings and turning that off and see if it helps. You can always reduce noise(if needed) with software later on.

[fujimeira]

@ttmartin I did everything right... manual mode... exposure 30s, f/16, iso 100, raw, tripod and so on. But right after i take the shoot, the red led of processing is lighthen and the camera won´t shoot for a while saying it´s busy...

It´s a canon 60D... If you say that it should record that fast, there must something wrong with my cam or there is another configuration that i´m missing.

But thanks anyway

[GauravPandeyPhoto]

Also, if we set the Shutter at 30" seconds. would I not observe noise?

[GauravPandeyPhoto]

Hi - In your video you mentioned there are some attachments (sensors) which can detect lightening and then trigger the camera. Could you point us to a few of them.

[ttmartin]

If your buffer was filling up, I'm guessing you were in a multishot mode, may have had your shutter speed set to 1/30, instead of 30”, and held you shutter button down for 30 seconds. So you were trying to take 60 pictures in 30 seconds, instead of one picture in 30 seconds.

[ttmartin]

@fujimeira - A 30 second exposure time shouldn't take any longer to clear than a regular photo. It should write to your card in fractions of a second. Be sure you are in (M)anual mode, and your shutter speed is set at 30". You then press and then immediately release your shutter. The camera's shutter will stay open for 30 seconds then close.

[terenas1986]

@NoSoldat4u hahaha! that was hilarious comment! :DDDD go for Bulb mode xDDDD

[fujimeira]

I have a canon 60D and tried this 30s metod the other day... but i just couldn´t capture any bolt. Right after the picture is taken my camera keeps processing and the buffer is filled. Should i try to reduce the resolution to reduce the processing time aswell? Any other tips?

[TheAntonioOcana]

Your not gonna be very close *hopefully*