AT Shot of the Day Thread

[AntonioHG]

my first time trying to take pics of lightning..I have no clue on what the best settings for lightning shots were.. this hand held at 1/200 F2.8 ISO 4000.

You can use a tripod, set it up for a reasonably long exposure and just wait. If you've got time lapse function, you can set it to trigger the shutter automatically so you can standby and let the camera do its thing. The ones I took were about 15 seconds long. Of course, if the wind is really blowing and you're outside, dial your shutter speed in.

 

[spacejamz]

Dreary Memorial Day sky....

 

[AntonioHG]

Found a different method for those with Olympus or Panasonic. If you've got a camera that has Live (View) Composite, this thing is like magic and you won't really have overexposed shots because it's not going to keep the shutter open the entire time. It'll create a composite shot in camera adding just the brighter parts of the image to a base image. This doesn't exist for Sony, Nikon, Canon, as far as I can tell.

 

[Crotulus]

Found a different method for those with Olympus or Panasonic. If you've got a camera that has Live (View) Composite, this thing is like magic and you won't really have overexposed shots because it's not going to keep the shutter open the entire time. It'll create a composite shot in camera adding just the brighter parts of the image to a base image. This doesn't exist for Sony, Nikon, Canon, as far as I can tell.

Olympus Live (View) Composite is great. Works well for fireworks too. 👍

 

[Crotulus]

A couple of shots from over the weekend. All taken with an Olympus OMD-EM1.2 with m.Zuiko 300mm f4.0

Spider


Spotted towhee


Mountain chickadee