Attempt at Lightning Photography

Published on 2009-05-26 by Mark VandeWettering

Some people have been using the CHDK firmware to do motion detection and capture pictures of lightning strikes. Despite the fact that lightning has been hitting Tampa all week, I didn’t get around to trying this until last night. I wasn’t entirely successful, but I did capture these two exposures:

This lightning strike hit almost directly overhead, and was really bright and loud.