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lightning Anonymous
took this a few weeks back during a thunder storm ... comments critiques, ways to improve shooting of lightning?
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>> Anonymous
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sorry forgot to resize

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>> Anonymous
Just remember that you can't overexpose the lightning with a longer exposure. I want to be able to see what is in the forground so expose for that and allow the lightning to do it's thing.
>> Anonymous
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>>215417

With lighting, you can pretty much expose the scene as it is without lighting and you'll get the nice bright white flashes anyhow.

See attached image for one of my own favs.

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