15 Spectacular Lightning Images
One Question that we’re regularly asked about here at Digital Photography School is ‘How do I photograph lightening?’
Our wonderful forum administrator NaturesPixel has put together a brief how to photograph lightning tutorial in our forums that tackles the question. At a little inspiration in your lightning photography you might also enjoy some of these great lightning shots.
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Yay, dramatic photos :]
Lightning is probably one of the coolest things to capture, at least while starting with DSLRs
Nice photos… you can also photograph lightning using a high-speed, light sensitive trigger such as: http://lightningtrigger.com/
Why are there halos around the lightning in the photo at the top? None of the other photos have anything similar. Was the lightning cloned in?
Wooah - thoose pictures are awsome!
Great photos! I’m wondering the same thing as Andrea. Too much color manipulation? -Lisa
So the next post will have to be a tutorial on taking lightning shots then? :)
I can almost hear and feel the crackling!!! Great captures!!
Once… a “bit” ago, I stuck my Yashicamat out on the balcony during an electrical storm at night, turned off all the interior lights, and just locked the shutter open for awhile. Must get those scanned soon!!
First may I say thank-you for including a photo from my Flickr stream in this post. I was a little taken back.
Second. I am not the photographer of that picture. The photo is a Department of Defense photo that is rightfully credited in the comment below the picture. I thought the photo was rather amazing and put it in my Flickr to share with others. I have the highest regard for the photographers that take these pictures for the Armed Services. many of them are pretty darn awesome.
I hope I have not caused any mistrust to anyone viewing DPS.
Thank you for your understanding.
check out http://www.weatherscapes.com and read his technique section- might explain the halo section in first photo too
My reply just got bumped because I pointed out that there were some fake lightning pics above.. that sux as an editor policy! Just plain censorship!
/Conchis :(
Conchis - I’m not sure what happened to your first comment. Sometimes our spam filter falsely marks some comments as spam. I’m not sure if this happened in this occasion. Can I ask - did you include a link in your last comment? Some links seem to trigger it.
We don’t actually censor comments - unless they are racist, personal attacks or spam etc. We value different opinion and voices. You’re free to say what you wish - all we ask is that you be constructive and respectful of others.
Those are really stunning shots. Thanks for sharing. :)
In answer to Andrea’s query regarding the halo effect around the lightning in the top photo, lightning appears to have a halo when captured while if is going through thin wispy cloud or through rain. This may have been accentuated by what appears to be a strong contrast adjustment in the image and perhaps some white balance adjustment.
Fantastic!
These are amazing. I feel like I’ve been missing out on something. Lightening where I live is pretty mild compared to these shots!
Great shots. Sometimes single strokes of lightning are also beautiful. And not too far away, as in this shot I took from our balcony this summer.
These pictures are great!! Fantastic! Congrats!
a few of the above do indefinately look to be a bit photoshoped, cropped, or add in’s. otherwise there amazing photos
I’m one of the photographers.. surprised to see my photo here, thanks to whoever chose it.. :P
just wanted to say i wasn’t taken with a DSLR camera or anything, and also that it wasn’t photoshopped at all. just held my little casio exilim as steady as i could on the longest shutter speed it could give and waited patiently. result was as is.
i later bought a canon s3 which is a better camera, although still not an slr. happened to receive it on a stormy day, and so put it on a tripod and the first picture i took with it caught this lightning:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reutc/346709427/
again, not photoshopped at all.. these are the great colours the camera gave. :)
Great picture I love a good lightning storm
great to see ..what nature give us…feel so good when lightning actually happens….thrilling,,,,,,,,,,loved these pictures
Those photo’s look amazing!!!
xtremely good photography at right moment atright place.those are really appreciable.