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AJ Miller
{K:49168} 9/8/2005
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This is impressive. I love the way you've caught the bolt outside the cloud.
AJ
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 8/29/2005
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yeah, I finally managed to sucessfully capture a bolt out into the clear, but I was unfortunately zoomed in too tight to catch the whole bolt. this is awesome!
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Tushit Jain
{K:1697} 8/29/2005
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Very nice set of photos. I specially like this one and the the forth one (with the car in the foreground). Very dramatic.
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zane anderson
{K:620} 8/25/2005
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hi jason
ive been thinking about a photoshop with this one but i cant think of one yet lol
but you can realy see how that cloud spits out the lighting like that its amazing but i dont know how you get that moment i guess you miss alotof shots before getting a good one huh
z a n e
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Jason Eldred
{K:17} 8/24/2005
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Andrew,
Thanks for the kind words. I shoot mostly free hand cause it always seems that I get caught out in the storms with out a tripod! I use the door of my truck to steady against most of the time and the rest is luck! I shoot at f2.8-f3.5 @ 2.5 seconds. I usually will shoot 100-200 shots of a storm and get 1 or 2 that I like! The best way to do it is with a tripod and shoot frame after frame for as long as it is safe to be there. If I were you I would use the 18-70 set at about 50mm and as low as the aperture will go with the ISO at 200. I usually shoot at 2.5sec. The shooting data on the info form only has 1sec and 5sec.
The best place to set up is on the south east side of a storm or the north west side. Your lightning will come from the back trailing edges of the storm or the leading edge if there is not to much rain in the storm to see it. I usually try and stay behind the storm on the SE side. If by some chance the storm spins out a tornado then you will be on the right side to see it! Most storms move to the NE so the SE keeps you out of the path of the storm and still alows for viewing and moving along with it.
Hope that helps. Any more questions drop me an e-mail and I'll see if I can help you out!
Thanks again,
Jason
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Jim Budrakey
{K:24393} 8/24/2005
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I think I say my computer cringe when I displayed this shot. Then it patted it's little surge protector... really it did. :-) Amazing capture.
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Salvatore Rossignolo
{K:13559} 8/24/2005
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Awesome!
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Andrew Bauer
{K:381} 8/24/2005
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Jason,
Very impressive. I've always wanted to try shots like this but, did not know what exposure settings to use and the timing of the shot. I could really use some pointers if you don't mind. I shoot a D70 typically with a AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED. I also have a 70-300mm Telephoto.
Great Shot,
Andrew
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