The last two evenings have seen thunderstorms roll through northern Nevada. On Tuesday it was too rainy and windy to try to capture anything as I wasn’t about to take my camera and self out into that mess, but yesterday evening saw the worst of the storms a bit to the south of us and after many, many, MANY tries, I finally captured this. (Click on image if you’d like to see a larger version)
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Great shot. Thanks and Love, nia
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Thank you, nia.
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I really like
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Beautiful. Lightning is difficult to capture and you’ve got a beautiful shot here. We’re supposed to get thunderstorms tonight although often times it goes around us.
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Thanks, Maralee. It was very difficult. It wasn’t dark yet, so I couldn’t just do a super long exposure, so I just stood out there and pressed the shutter over and over and over again. I got three actual strikes out of about 300 photos. This one was the best.
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Wow….fantastic shot!
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Thank you, Mark. In this case, patience had its reward. 🙂
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Excellent capture! The tones and composition are wonderful.
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Thank you!
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Wow! Brilliant! 300 shots! And I was proud when I took 50 to get 3 🙂 I always thought these pictures, and the skies filled with stars or a full moon were photo-shopped.
Thanks for sharing your talent.
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Thank you. All I could do was set the exposure and keep shooting. Lightning is so fast, if you wait until you see it, you’ll miss it.
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Thanks for the tip, I imagine it must be like butterflies… I have a hard time catching one which I did… once… but it wasn’t too clear.
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So you just stood there and clicked 300 times and got it 3 strikes. Wow. What patience. But it was worth it.
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Thanks!
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Very beautiful image. Congratulations.
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Thank you, Charly.
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Fantastic shot, Carissa! Well done. 🙂
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Thank you, Inga!
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Carissa, this is perfection. Beautiful work.
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Thank you!
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It is tough, and having tried it in the past, I can appreciate the effort . . . but:
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-lightning
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/indepth/photography/hands-reviews/aeo-lightning-and-motion-triggering-devices
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Article/gr35fgui/how-to-photograph-lightning.html
The triggers make it easy, or so I hear. I don’t have one.
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I just clicked on the DPS link and they spoke of long shutter – which I addressed in one of my comments above that it was not yet dark. At my smallest aperture at 100 ISO, I was blowing out the sky (and therefore no lightning would have shown).
I did what I could given what I had, and my first real attempt.
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I also have very few opportunities to photograph lightning, and like you, I don’t have a motion trigger (or plans to buy one). If I moved to tornado alley (oh wait, I used to live there…not gonna do it again) or any other place with lots of thunderstorms, I’ll reconsider. 🙂
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Spectacular!
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Thank you.
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