tips for Lightning shots??

[Jon Lim]

Hi im quite new to forums and im just an amateur, its currently raining cats & dogs right now. Which brings me to this point, any advise on taking nice shots of Lightnings? Like what might b the ideal shutter speed or aperture?

[Benny Teo]

U can try go Marina Barrage Or Near Sea Area.
They have a wonderful view of lighting thunder and also back ground.

[Guek Peng Siong]

Shooting lightning at night is better than day time. You could try using ISO around 400 then aperture around F11, exposure time could be in term of seconds. Have long exposure is useful in the sense that you could trigger the shutter slightly earlier while anticipating the lightning to strike.

[MLP]

Heres how I shoot lightning, dont have to follow me but its just a rough guide (:
1. Set ISO to around 400, aperture to ƒ/1 1 or above.
2. Set shutter speed to 5 seconds if you only want 1 lightning or up to 30 seconds if you anticipate a few consecutive strikes. However what i prefer to do is use a remote and shoot in bulb mode.
3. When in bulb, you basically start the exposure and wait for the lightning, once it pops, end the exposure. But you could leave it on for minutes, and it would be alright since lightning doesnt really illuminate much of anything around it to cause severe blown out portions of your image.

Just my 2 cents (: good luck with your lightning shots.

Keep shooting,
MLP