Angry Sky

Thank you. I got lucky!

Hi Paul, very nice first capture. Keep shooting :)

This is fantastic Paul.

Mate I have written a Quick tutorial on lightning photography and it is located in the Lightning and Storms group.
But you can find it here
You shots most likely appear grainey because of high ISO settings, Make sure its on the lowest setting your Camera has.
Cheers

Great detail in the clouds, beautiful!

Crikey, what a crack of lightening…Superbly caught.

Thanks – I call it “lucky” :)

Absolutely beautiful capture, I love stormy skies, well done !!!

Wow!!! Wonderfully atmospheric.

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No gettin’ around it… this is fantastic.

amazing shot!

great shot. congrats on making home page with it :)

brilliant/love this image/superb on homepage

You are not supposed to be THIS lucky on first attempts! :)

lol I agree with Peter GREAT LUCK and SHOT!

Amazing shot Paul, fantastic capture :)

Fantastic shot Paul!! If you want help with these kinds of shots, ask CameraView or Jeremy Jones (father and son) who actually chases these things around to get shots. They also do photography for a pyrothechnics firm. And the really cool thing is these guys are really good to help out with info! I know Jeremy’s pretty busy these days but CameraView (Dennis) is likely on line right as we speak.

absolutly gorgouse!

wow, this is really great!!! the clouds are perfectly black and murky. for the noise level, just make sure the ISO setting is on one of the lower settings. i don’t know much about night time photography so it might be more than that. :) great image though!

This is a very nice photo!! I love how the lightening looks like it is going through the clouds.. If you get any good advice about shooting skies and clouds, do share with the rest of us! ;-) Congrats on getting the “front page.”

Fantastic image Paul.

Great image. Love how the lightning goes horizontally.

wow this is so cool, and so rare!

for a first this is amazing. I found out that grainy pictures are either due to three things at my convention this weekend. Unclean sensors or damaged sensors, High ISO, or incorrect setting of White Balance. The later two are the most prevalent.

fantastic image!

wow!

All I can really say is WOW!

amazing…the sheer power and massiveness of such an event. awe inspiring…nice work!

WOW..that looks awesome!

Hey this is great, just wish i could get one..just one..that would make me so happy i absolutely LOVE storms but we don’t have them very often round here :0( but grrrreat shot!