Wednesday Night's Alright (For Lightning)

christinamae

It has been weeks since we've had a good storm in my area. Seems like we are having monsoon lite this year. Tonight we had a storm and I grabbed the camera and headed out.



All comments appreciated! Thank you for looking!

dseidman

Nice catch!

Eia

Wow, what a catch! The 'bolts' are very sharp (no pun intended). What is that bright light from, just next to the lightning and on the other side of the mountain? I assume city lights?...

thapamd

Oh man that's an awesome shot, Christina! The lightning is perfectly placed, compositionally speaking. I also love the blue of the lightning contrasted with the warm glow from the city lights. I even like that beautifully "curvy" mountain line at the bottom...I guess I'm saying I live everything!

DaddyO

Awesome shot.

marcpro

Nice! Did you have to crop? Or did the lightning cooperate and position itself nicely at the right side?
Cheers,
Marc

dlplumer

Excellent lightening capture A beautiful photo too.

Nikolai

W00t! Great capture, girl!

Tee Why

sweet

Reverb

Awesome photo, beautiful clarity to the lightning, which seems to. I've never done any lightning shooting but am curious to hear about where you were shooting from and any tips about the process since you've got it down!

christinamae

dseidman wrote:

Nice catch!

Thank you!

christinamae

Eia wrote:

Wow, what a catch! The 'bolts' are very sharp (no pun intended). What is that bright light from, just next to the lightning and on the other side of the mountain? I assume city lights?...

Thanks Eia! I'm not sure what that light is behind the mountain. It stopped right at 10pm, so maybe it was Deer Valley Airport.

christinamae

thapamd wrote:

Oh man that's an awesome shot, Christina! The lightning is perfectly placed, compositionally speaking. I also love the blue of the lightning contrasted with the warm glow from the city lights. I even like that beautifully "curvy" mountain line at the bottom...I guess I'm saying I live everything!

Thank you Mahesh! I can thank mother nature for the placement of the lightning. A little bit more to the right and I would have missed the shot.

christinamae

DaddyO wrote:

Awesome shot.

Thanks DaddyO!

christinamae

marcpro wrote:

Nice! Did you have to crop? Or did the lightning cooperate and position itself nicely at the right side?
Cheers,
Marc

Thanks Marc! I did crop, but only from the left side. Mother nature kindly placed the bolt there.

christinamae

dlplumer wrote:

Excellent lightening capture A beautiful photo too.

Thank you Dan!

christinamae

Nikolai wrote:

W00t! Great capture, girl!

Thank you Nikolai!

christinamae

Tee Why wrote:

sweet

Thanks Tee Why!

christinamae

Reverb wrote:

Awesome photo, beautiful clarity to the lightning, which seems to. I've never done any lightning shooting but am curious to hear about where you were shooting from and any tips about the process since you've got it down!

Thanks Alex! I was on a hillside overlooking the valley. I don't have any special tips other than what I've read here on dgrin. Mother nature plays a big part of it.

matrix311

christinamae wrote:

It has been weeks since we've had a good storm in my area. Seems like we are having monsoon lite this year. Tonight we had a storm and I grabbed the camera and headed out.



All comments appreciated! Thank you for looking!

I love it, great shot! I was out Wednesday night trying to see the meteor shower but the cloud cover got to thick. There was a nice lightning show around which was fun to watch.

gnooj

Excellent!

christinamae

matrix311 wrote:

I love it, great shot! I was out Wednesday night trying to see the meteor shower but the cloud cover got to thick. There was a nice lightning show around which was fun to watch.

Thanks matrix311! I'm up in Cave Creek, so we were watching the same storm.

christinamae

gnooj wrote:

Excellent!

Thank you gnooj!