Puerto vallarta Mexico

[armando_m]

Family vacation

1 fireworks shot from a boat
2 night view 
3 mountain top in the morning
4 storm - 4 images composite

[Akira]

Armando, the weather condition might not have been preferable for your family vacation, but it should have been fantastic for your opportunity for your photography.

I particularly like the thunder shot!  Thanks for sharing.

[armando_m]

Thanks for commenting Akira

I bought a trigger which can be acted by light, the thunder storm  happened around midnight, so I set the camera by the window and let it do it's thing for half an hour or so, a lot of lightning above the clouds which even at the lowest sensitivity still triggered the camera

Lets see if tonight we have another thunder storm

[Mongo]

thanks for sharing your vacation with us Armando. Mongo particularly likes the warm evening glow you achieved in #2

[Akira]

I bought a trigger which can be acted by light, the thunder storm  happened around midnight, so I set the camera by the window and let it do it's thing for half an hour or so, a lot of lightning above the clouds which even at the lowest sensitivity still triggered the camera

Lets see if tonight we have another thunder storm

Hmm...that's interesting.  I wonder how fast the camera/trigger reacted to the lightning.  Maybe the captured lightning was the one flashed immediately after another one that had triggered the shutter?   

[CS]

Hmm...that's interesting.  I wonder how fast the camera/trigger reacted to the lightning.  Maybe the captured lightning was the one flashed immediately after another one that had triggered the shutter?   

Here's a link for one device  that explains it. I don't know if this is the one that Armando uses.  http://mkcontrols.com/lightningbug/

[Akira]

Carl, thanks.  Looks interesting.  Never heard of the infrared spark preceding the visible lightning!

[armando_m]

This is the one I got
http://miops.com/product/miops-smart/

they had a nice special for father's day

Nice link to the explanation Carl, I wasn't sure it was going to work but it does surprisingly well

[Akira]

The one linked by Carl seems to be more specialized for the lightning.  But yours proved to work nicely.

For the fireworks, I always look for the trace of the rising shell and count two or three to open the shutter right before it explodes.

[tommiejeep]

Armando, nice images.  I particularly like the last two.  Thanks for the link and explanation on the trigger.  I keep trying to get an image of lightning storm over the Mosque across the valley and never really succeed.
Thanks for sharing and was the storm part of your family holiday plan 
Tom

[Hugh_3170]

Splendid images Armando - thank you for sharing them.  I hope that your holiday is as nice as the images coming from it.

Thanks also to yourself and CS for the information on the triggering devices.

[armando_m]

a walk on the beach - a short story

1. I see them
2. he takes off running
3. from the hip - and her answer