{"id":3512,"date":"2012-12-09T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T22:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2012-12-09T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T22:19:42","slug":"summer-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/summer-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer storms"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today I was going to have a post for you all about Xmas trees and link to a heap of cute stuff on Pinterest but last night we had a wicked thunderstorm and instead of writing that post (and getting lost in Pinterest for a couple of hours) I spent a couple of hours trying to photograph lightning!<\/p>\n

Now I don’t own a dslr or any fancy camera equipment. I have a Sony quick shot point and shoot and my iPhone. The Sony has absconded most likely into miss K’s bedroom as, even at not-quite-3 she loves taking photos and will often steal the Sony or just run round taking pics on her iPhone (yes she has an iPhone – it’s basically an iPod touch now as the antenna is bung and it has no sim). But I digress.<\/p>\n

So I was left with my phone. Now the iPhone4s has a pretty decent camera for a phone and I tried to get some still shots just using the camera but alas I’m to slow.<\/p>\n

Switch to camera mode and I managed to capture some awesome claps of thunder and a few bolts of lightning. Sadly most of the really clear bolts happened after I finished shooting \uf61e<\/p>\n

I put a call out on twitter hoping one of the photo types might have an answer to how to get stills from video and while I waited I also did a bit of searching on Google. One app that came up a few times was StillShot<\/a> (iTunes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Grabbed it and had a play around and managed to grab these shots out of the first 2 videos I took. A bit blurry but pretty happy with that. <\/p>\n

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I did some more searching cause I thought well there might be some tips out there on shooting lightning with an iPhone and one of the first things that came up was an app called iLightningCam<\/a> (iTunes<\/a>) the only thing I managed to capture with it though was street lights. Next time there is lightning though I’ll be a bit better prepped and will try shooting from somewhere a little different – like undercover outside not inside where I kept getting reflection from the glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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