Thursday, May 23, 2013

Lightening photography using point and shoot camera

Can we take photography of lightening using a simple point and shoot camera. ?
The answer is YES.

Here is the way:

First switch to "long exposure mode" of your camera. In long exposure mode, we can adjust the time for which the shutter remains opened. In normal modes, this is calculated automatically using the available light outside. If the shutter remains open for long time, more light enters the camera. So make sure that there is no light sources such as bulbs in the frame while taking using long exposure modes. Make the exposure mode to 15 seconds, if the sky is completely dark.  Otherwise just take random photos using different exposure time and analyse the pictures taken to choose the best exposure time.

You will not have lightening all the time. So wait for the weather.

Fix the camera on a tripod (or anything), because you don't want to shake the camera during the long exposure modes because it will make the photo very blurry.

The last and final step is just click. Never wait for a lightening to happen to click the shutter. It is very instantaneous and you will surely miss. But keep clicking randomly. You will surely get a photo.

The photo will be highly overexposed some times. Then used any photo editing software to decrease the brightness of the picture.


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