We have had a couple of amazing storms at our house over the last few days. This was taken from our porch last night! Look for more pictures coming soon...Here are some more. We were heading to bed around 9:30 when we looked out the front window and notice the storm. Mark got the camera, tinkered with the lighting settings a bit, and set it on continuous photo mode - a fast action, 2 frame per second ability. You can't exactly predict when the lightning is going to hit, so he guessed as good as he could and went to work.
The storm was incredible! Lightning literally flashed about every 5-15 seconds. As it pulled over our house, you heard the wind whipping up with great intensity, the hairs on my arm stood up, and the rain and hail began pelting and flooding the streets in mere seconds. It was awesome! All told, it lasted about 30-40 ninutes, eventually passing right over us.
When all was done, we literally had over 1600 photos to weed through and pulled out some great ones. After an hour of deleting 1575 dark images of the night sky, we had about 25-30 incredible shots. Here are some of our favorites:
This is right before a lightning strike, but shows how dark the sky was when the lightning wasn't flashing.
And here are the shots:
1 comment:
Amazing! What a good idea on how to capture the lightning, too.
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