Down in Blue Valley which is east of Factory Butte in Utah, I had been in this cool valley to fly the drone and to photograph the sunset. As fast at the sunset approached so did this huge storm to which I had gotten alerts on flash flooding dangers on my phone. It ended up being too windy to fly the drone, but I was seeing lot's of lightning as the storm was approaching and the as the sunset was starting to cause the clouds to change colors.
I was a good ways in to Blue Valley on Cow Duna Road and had set up 3 cameras to capture the sunset and the lightning. As the rain approached and started to get the cameras wet, I would pack them up quickly into my Jeep and race south down the road a few miles to get ahead of the storm. When the storm caught up to me, I would pack up and drive another couple of miles. I repeated this about 4 times I think. On the 3rd time of setting up is when I caught this photo.
That evening was a lightning lovers dream come true! I would guess there was hundreds of bolts of lightning, I have so many lightning images, I can't count them all. This one is a single frame on my D850. I was not using a Lightning Trigger. I had bought one about 10 years ago, I have changed the batteries in it a couple of times, and I still haven't actually used it. It's easier for me when there is so much lightning to just adjust the exposure to about a 2 or 3 second exposure and then use my Remote Release and Lock it in, which continually triggers the shutter. Time always seems to be short when Lightning is striking around me, so I go with what I know, the tried and true Remote Release.
One of these days I will have to actually try the Lightning Trigger.
The Kaleidoscope of colors in the sky is what I got. I didn't do anything, the lightning creates such weird Color Casts, and then throw in Sunset colors too, and it made for a truly one of a kind image I think.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
I was a good ways in to Blue Valley on Cow Duna Road and had set up 3 cameras to capture the sunset and the lightning. As the rain approached and started to get the cameras wet, I would pack them up quickly into my Jeep and race south down the road a few miles to get ahead of the storm. When the storm caught up to me, I would pack up and drive another couple of miles. I repeated this about 4 times I think. On the 3rd time of setting up is when I caught this photo.
That evening was a lightning lovers dream come true! I would guess there was hundreds of bolts of lightning, I have so many lightning images, I can't count them all. This one is a single frame on my D850. I was not using a Lightning Trigger. I had bought one about 10 years ago, I have changed the batteries in it a couple of times, and I still haven't actually used it. It's easier for me when there is so much lightning to just adjust the exposure to about a 2 or 3 second exposure and then use my Remote Release and Lock it in, which continually triggers the shutter. Time always seems to be short when Lightning is striking around me, so I go with what I know, the tried and true Remote Release.
One of these days I will have to actually try the Lightning Trigger.The Kaleidoscope of colors in the sky is what I got. I didn't do anything, the lightning creates such weird Color Casts, and then throw in Sunset colors too, and it made for a truly one of a kind image I think.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
