Lightning Storm on Gold Coast
Monday night was a night of storms here on the Gold Coast. As I arrived on the train from Brisbane Airport the sky was being riven by fork lightning. My daughter and I went storm chasing with the digital camera - testing out its capacity for night time shots.
It’s a bit tricky but photographing lightning can be done.
With an SLR camera we could have just left the lense open, covered with card, opening it when the lightning struck. However this camera doen’t offer that option.
We had to make do with taking shots of the sky for 10 seconds at a time on the off chance that we might strike it lucky. Here’s one of our shots, taken from a hilltop next to the Molendinar Tip.
Next time we go out with an empty camera and a fully charged battery.
