Lightning In Atlantic City/Brigantine

MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
edited April 20, 2006 in Landscapes
This was taken from my 14th floor balcony in Ventnor Heights. Its my first attempt at using my trigger with the bulb setting.

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Good catch mate...do you have the exif ?

    I was wondering how that noise (if thats what it is) got in there.
  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Humungus wrote:
    Good catch mate...do you have the exif ?

    I was wondering how that noise (if thats what it is) got in there.


    The noise got in there because I never tried this before, and was scared that shooting F22 at night would be too dark, even with a slow exposure.. So I had the ISO set to 400...

    MainFragger/Brian
  • SushantSushant Registered Users Posts: 125 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    cool shot!
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2006
    Sushant wrote:
    cool shot!

    Thank you! thumb.gif
  • Zoom RaiderZoom Raider Registered Users Posts: 317 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
    MainFragger wrote:
    This was taken from my 14th floor balcony in Ventnor Heights. Its my first attempt at using my trigger with the bulb setting.

    What settings and all did you use to capture the lightning? I try to take pictures of lightning around here where there are no city-lights, but all I ever get are blanks. I had it set on Auto, Night, M and S. I used flash and no flash. I haven't found anything yet on lightning shots in the D50 manual.

    I ask those where I bought the D50 at, and their way never works either. I hope it is me not knowing what I'm doing wrong and not the camera wearing out all ready. I'd like to capture night and day shots of lightning. We had a morning storm already, but I was too sleepy to get outta bed.umph.gif

    Thanks!
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2006
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    Zoom Raider wrote:
    What settings and all did you use to capture the lightning? I try to take pictures of lightning around here where there are no city-lights, but all I ever get are blanks. I had it set on Auto, Night, M and S. I used flash and no flash. I haven't found anything yet on lightning shots in the D50 manual.

    I ask those where I bought the D50 at, and their way never works either. I hope it is me not knowing what I'm doing wrong and not the camera wearing out all ready. I'd like to capture night and day shots of lightning. We had a morning storm already, but I was too sleepy to get outta bed.umph.gif

    Thanks!



    I shot ISO 400 (but it looks like I could have gotten away with 200 at least) and F22 in full manual, no flash... On the Canon 20D when you are setting shutter speed, once you get past 30 seconds, it gives you the option to go to bulb.. which basically means the shutter stays open until you let the shutter close. I have an accessory shutter trigger that attaches to the side of the camera that allows you to trigger the shutter without getting vibration from touching the camera. Also, I had the mirror lockup on, which keeps the mirror from vibrating the camera when you shoot. The problem with shooting a straight shutter that is set to any speed, is that it will always trigger just after the lighting, because you can't hit it fast enough. However, if you set the slowest possible shutter speed on your camera, there IS a chance that if you don't move the camera after hitting the shutter, that you might catch some lightning.

    MainFragger/Brian
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited April 20, 2006
    MainFragger wrote:
    I shot ISO 400 (but it looks like I could have gotten away with 200 at least) and F22 in full manual, no flash... On the Canon 20D when you are setting shutter speed, once you get past 30 seconds, it gives you the option to go to bulb.. which basically means the shutter stays open until you let the shutter close. I have an accessory shutter trigger that attaches to the side of the camera that allows you to trigger the shutter without getting vibration from touching the camera. Also, I had the mirror lockup on, which keeps the mirror from vibrating the camera when you shoot. The problem with shooting a straight shutter that is set to any speed, is that it will always trigger just after the lighting, because you can't hit it fast enough. However, if you set the slowest possible shutter speed on your camera, there IS a chance that if you don't move the camera after hitting the shutter, that you might catch some lightning.

    MainFragger/Brian

    Mate...get it off ISO 400 & onto 100. Use the lower ISO to help slow the shutter down. That noise is a real pain on long exposures.
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