I have never been able to successfully shoot lightning… until tonight. I mean, at least marginally successfully. These images aren’t blowing my mind or anything. But they are definitely better than the crap that I have captured in the past. When I walked in the door from this evening’s run, the whole hallway lit up. Then it happened again like 3 times, before I even got to the bedroom. So, without even changing out of my nasty sweaty running garb, I grabbed a cam and a tripod and scurried up to the roof (which I hear is one of the smartest places to be in a lightning storm). Anyway, the flashes were so frequent and consistently located, that it was almost like shooting fish in a barrel. When the storm started to move more directly overhead, I felt like it was time to call it quits and retreat. Here is one more shot of a lightning illuminated cloud.
your marginally successful is pretty damn good.
Sweet photos Jake. Your comment about being on the roof being a safe place made me chuckle. Last night I was on the phone with my mom and there was some loud thunder. She said, “You don’t have an umbrella do you??? I don’t want you to get hit by lightning!” I died laughing. Yes, on the ground, in Lincoln Center, I’m the most likely thing to get hit with my umbrella.
Just catching up on the blogs and saw this, amazing. That cloud to cloud shot is sick.