I'm now back from the Dordogne. This is the only image I managed to take on the final night - a terrific storm:
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/lightning300808.jpg)
Can't complain though - I reckon I got 10 clear nights out of the 15 I spent there (though I didn't do imaging on all 10).
Hope you enjoyed your holiday.
Thanks for bringing back the clear skies though,
I just hope they last. :D
Mac.
Love the lightning picture, Mark
Yep another great image -well done - I've always wanted to try & capture lightening myself but camera never seems to be to hand when storms occur.
Out of interest what shutter speed did you use... I uess that you just set to say 15 or 30secs & hope that lightening occured whilst shutter was open?
Looking forward to your reprocess of all those images you took...
John
I used 5 seconds because I didn't want to catch more than one strike in a single image. I took about 50 images but only 2 had a visible strike. After that, the storm had passed over.
It was ISO 200 at F4.