{"id":363,"date":"2018-01-28T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-01-28T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T02:04:07","slug":"backyard-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/backyard-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accepted wisdom, when it comes to capturing lightning, is to put your camera on a tripod and set a very long shutter.  Ten seconds, fifteen, or longer.  Leave the shutter open and hope that you&#8217;re facing the right way when lightning strikes.  This normally how I do it, but in late 2014 I was standing in my back yard and the flashes of lightning were huge, real skullcrackers.  I was feeling ambitious so I thought I&#8217;d try and capture a flash handheld, with a short shutter speed.<\/p>\n<p>And so this shot, the only successful one in about ten tries, was one of the best luckiest shots I&#8217;ve ever taken.  1\/80th of a second, pushing the shutter when I saw the flash of light.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, I&#8217;m good.  =D<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Lightning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"1200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accepted wisdom, when it comes to capturing lightning, is to put your camera on a tripod and set a very long shutter. Ten seconds, fifteen, or longer. Leave the shutter open and hope that you&#8217;re facing the right way when lightning strikes. This normally how I do it, but in late 2014 I was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-lightning","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}