Shutter Mike Photography

I called this post an “attempt” at photographing lightning because it was the first time I ever tried to capture one of the frequent summer lightning storms in Arizona.  And, although I actually did capture some lightning on my camera’s sensor, I feel that there is a lot of room for improvement.

I won’t give any how-to tips on this particular subject.  For one, I have a long way to go before mastering the successful lightning shot and second, there are already some great sources out there on the subject.  My favorite source for photography how-to advice, the Digital Photography School, has a great tutorial on How to Photograph Lightning.

I weeded through a lot of shots to pick out these three.  These were all taken between 7 and  7:30 pm on September 8th.  So just after the official sunset.  The camera was set to aperture priority.  I did some minor editing in Photoshop to tweak exposure and crop them.  But for the most part they are true to how they were shot.