Lightening photography

>>3133562
i like it

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1/2 taken on a farm I used to live on.

I really miss storm photography, I had some great fun working on that back in the day. My work schedule has kept me away from a camera for almost 3 years now.

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2/2

Heavily cropped from the original with contrast and levels pushed around.

Both of these were taken on a Pentax Kx, 18-55 kit lens, 2 second exposure 400 iso at something like 16f

How do you do lightening photography? Do you just set a slow shutter speed and keep shooting until it actually strikes?

>>3133974
i was also wondering this

do you do long exposures to try and capture all the flashes of lighting?

>>3133974
>>3133993
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>F-Number f/20.0
>ISO Speed Rating 100
>Exposure Time 30 sec
Yes.

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>>3133974
>>3133993
If you expose for too long and the flash happens earlier in the exposure, it'll look weaker. Which can be fine, it depends on what you're going for.

I usually do 6-10 second exposures, and set the camera to take them one after another with a half second interval in-between.

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I usually put 15 seconds, iso 100 and f stop around 16? I'm not sure, I do what I feel will do the trick with the light I'm dealing with

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>>3133547
I took this one 2 weeks ago, pretty cool storm

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