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taken with my cheap 100 doller samsung digatel camra 4.0 mega pixels

Neat pictures. How long of an exposure did you use?

VERY cool. I wanted to take some shots last weekend when we had a good strong storm, but low and behold my batteries were dead. I will make sure my digicam is charged for the next one though.Thanks for sharing.

What's the trick to taking shots of lightning? Do you just use a long exposure, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe more and hope lightning strikes within the camera's view during that time?

Quote, originally posted by JustinVGT »What's the trick to taking shots of lightning? Do you just use a long exposure, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe more and hope lightning strikes within the camera's view during that time?Normally, for extended exposures, you use 4-5 seconds. You just keep snapping pictures until you get a shot of lightning, your best bet is to use a tripod to keep the camera steady.

I'll need to try it sometime. They are saying we might have some thunderstorms in my area this evening. I need to experiment and try to get some lightning shots too. I might try a variety of exposer times and use the exposure lock function to get faster response. This picture I took is with a 60 second exposure:

Quote, originally posted by JustinVGT »I'll need to try it sometime. They are saying we might have some thunderstorms in my area this evening. I need to experiment and try to get some lightning shots too. I might try a variety of exposer times and use the exposure lock function to get faster response. This picture I took is with a 60 second exposure: Are those airplanes off in the distance?

there's a UFO in the 3rd picture!

I was in my apartment and heard some loud high pitch sounds. I looked out my window and saw several of these things flying off in the distant sky. I had no idea what they were, so I grabbed my camera and took some pictures. I then emailed Peter Davenport at http://www.nuforc.org. He then responded saying he concluded that they were only airplanes. No, I'm just joking I didn't do that . I knew of that site from a college assignment a couple years ago. That's Dulles Airport in the distance, you can see the towers. Looking out my windows I saw all the airplanes in formation for landing and those taking off. It looks pretty cool at night, makes some interesting pictures. I tried several different shutter speeds with my camera. That 60 second shot really shows where the planes traveled. The forecast for my area says scattered thunderstorms for the next 6 days straight. I've been wanting to wash my Vibe, guess I'll have to hold out some more, but hopefully I'll get some chances to try take some pictures of lightning.