I like this guys website on lightning photography. I've had trouble in
the past with too much city light. A dark rural location is best.
http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/ltgph.html
rg
Dave Kennedy wrote:
Had a lightning storm roll through the area around dusk last night.
Generally we get a few flashes and that's it, but this one seemed to
be lasting a bit longer than most.
So I grabbed my DS, and went for a quick drive.
Never really trying to shoot lightning before, I basically went on the
following theory:
Set camera to Av, set to a small aperature (essentially to extend the
shutter speed - I believe it was 20s), press the shutter and wait for
lightning.
While, I did see lightning in the during the exposure time, the best I
got was a faint (barely visible) bolt. :-(
So... Anyone have any tips for shooting lightning? Should I open up
more? Underexpose according to the meter?
On another (kinda) unrelated topic, I found that the DS seemed to take
forever to process the image after the longer shutter speed elapsed.
Probably like 15-20s before it actually started writing to the disk.
Is this normal?
The only theory I could come up with, is that the body reads
continually from the sensor during the exposure, and then when the
shutter closes, the body compiles the image from memory. (I was
shooting in Jpeg). Would Raw have been quicker?
Anyone understand this?
thanx
dk
