The recent bad weather in KL (rains almost daily) has been a real pain to the photographer in me. That’s until I a few days back when there was this thunderstorm not too far from where I live. Being far meant there’s no rain so I manage to mount my tripod near the window of my apartment and did some long exposures hoping to photograph lightnings. This was the only keeper of the 15 minute attempt (the storm blew out of view after that).

Surprisingly, the bright lightning barely registers on the camera. This image was post processed to bring out the lightning as I saw it (minus the colors). The unprocessed one looked barely like a spark on camera. I tried boosting the ISO and using a large aperture but that just caused the whole area to brighten up, further swallowing up the lightning. For this keeper shot, I used ISO@200, f5.

So the next time you’re stuck indoors with a storm looming, rest assured there’s still something you can do with your camera