Late Night Lighting

I have always been interested in lighting photography and how these spectacular images were captured. So with the wife and kids headed off to bed I decide to looking it up on google and give it a shot. The first two photos are taken from my front porch. I used a thirty second exposure and hoped that I could capture a strike or two and with luck I did!

With feeling I had a grasp of the concept of how to do it and not getting much lighting in the frame, I told the wife I was leaving for a better location. With a weird look and a be careful , I was off. At the second location I switched the camera to bulb mode and held it until I captured a lighting bolt or two. Needless to say some of the shutter lengths were in the two to three minute range.