As I was driving from Santa Fe New Mexico to Los Alamos where my son lives last week, a huge storm was on the horizon that looked pretty nasty but I hadn't seen any lightning. As I got about halfway I started to see some lightning flashes. There is a cool rock structure in that area called Camel Rock. My hope was that I could use that in the foreground with the lightning in the background.
As I drove up to it, I saw that wasn't to be as the lightning was too much to the right of it. But as I walked up the pathway towards it, I saw some lightning right in front of me. So I set up my camera using the pathway as a leading line, but unfortunately Camel Rock was not going to work. But I was super happy anyway, as I thought that pathway made for an awesome ground object, and would be a great way to pull the viewers eyes into the image.
As usual, this was without a Lightning Trigger, one day I will use mine, but the Remote Release works great, and especially with a bright day time shot, I think the lightning trigger would struggle. I put a 10 stop ND on, and was running 2 or 3 second exposures with the Remote Release locked in to shoot continuously.
I have a B&W version I am working on too, but for now the colored version.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
As I drove up to it, I saw that wasn't to be as the lightning was too much to the right of it. But as I walked up the pathway towards it, I saw some lightning right in front of me. So I set up my camera using the pathway as a leading line, but unfortunately Camel Rock was not going to work. But I was super happy anyway, as I thought that pathway made for an awesome ground object, and would be a great way to pull the viewers eyes into the image.
As usual, this was without a Lightning Trigger, one day I will use mine, but the Remote Release works great, and especially with a bright day time shot, I think the lightning trigger would struggle. I put a 10 stop ND on, and was running 2 or 3 second exposures with the Remote Release locked in to shoot continuously.
I have a B&W version I am working on too, but for now the colored version.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
