I don’t really have anything else to say here except that I got really lucky, and the shots were worth standing in the rain with a head cold.
Ok, when you look at these last two you’ll see why I had to promise no photoshop, they look too crazy to be real.
And last… this one just exploded in front of the camera and it was so bright I’m amazed I got anything at all.
We’ve had some stormy weather here in Toronto – which always makes for good photo ops ;) Unfortunately we weren’t positioned well for getting great lightning pics, but it did make me want to share some of my favourite lightning shots from last year.
This was a nice capture – I took it from the balcony of our old apartment which used to have a great view of the CN tower. Lightning hits the tower frequently and usually it’s so bright it blows the shot right out – but for this one I used a very fast shutter to capture the bolt.
And ditto for this one.
This was taken looking north up Spadina – I’ll bet this storm looked great over the lake.
This one made me literally jump in the air when I saw the shot – lightning is such a crap shoot, so to speak, you never know if you’ll catch one!
Tito and I love chasing storms around – for more lightning photos you can check out one of my earliest blog entries from us storm chasing north of Toronto =o)
We had a nice light show in Toronto on Sunday night and of course Tito, “Pedro” and I were out there chasing it around. Around 1am/Markham we finally gave it a break and came home but not until getting some great shots ;o)
Tips for shooting lightning:
The remote saves you from having to man the shutter button and leaves you free to enjoy the display instead of worrying about your camera. Keep an extra battery and card handy in case you need to swap out. Think of it as cruise control for your camera, it certainly beats trying to ‘anticipate’ the lightning.
Oh, and bring bug spray ;o)
