Two days ago we had a pretty spectacular light show. I've taken photos before of the light show and they've turned out pretty good. But I couldn't take a decent lightning strike if my life depended on it. Check out this example:
See the lightning? Yeah, it over on the far right hand of the picture. I was taking 30 second exposures and I was just not getting the shot. The camera was taking around 30 seconds to process the image. Literally, the shutter would click and a bolt of lighting would strike right in the middle of my frame! AAARRRGGHH!!! In this case I got something, but it was not in the frame of view. The photos were blurry with lots of noise. Very disappointing. I probably spent two hours trying to grab a shot.
So I started doing the bulb thing (holding the shutter open until I got a strike) and that still wasn't getting what I wanted. Here's another lame photo:
The sky was getting lit up by lightning, but nothing was getting captured in the frame.
Overall, disappointing. I guess I keep trying.
I also tried my hand at the stary night. This one is probably my best one. Notice the aircraft flying past my field of view:
This photo should be rotated 90 degrees, but I don't know how to do that. So here it is. Hopefully you can see something.
