On Wednesday, Sept. 28, a thunderstorm rolled through my area. The storm knocked the power to a lot of east Dallas out after it rolled through, and the outage lasted for 3 hours.
Since the power was out, I went outside and played with the camera. I am amazed at the kinds of shots I was able to create.
This is looking down my street at, get this, 8:42 PM at night. The sun had set around an hour ago. I got this much light with a 16 second exposure time and ISO-400 equivalent sensitivity. (I can automatically change the emulated film type on this camera.) Part of the brightness is lightning in the distance. It was all cloud lightning.
The clouds are breaking, and stars are showing through. Stunning. Same settings as above.
A neighbor’s car passes down a nearby street.
A few nights earlier, I got this shot of my son playing with one of those green lights. This was given to us by some of my neighbor’s family evacuated Hurricane Rita from Houston.
This is a 5 second exposure with a flash at the end.