Lights on Tampa 1

Our regular Monday Night Meetup was held in Tampa, FL last night. Tampa is having an event that they only do prior to the Super Bowl Game when it comes to the city. The last one was in 2006.

This shot is of the Tampa Municipal Building. There are 10 locations in all. Unfortunately, I was only at 2 of them last night, and since I'll be leaving for vacation on Friday I doubt I'll be able to get to see more of them.

I'll be posting the other shots I took of the second place we visited on my next post.

Lightning

I've been trying forever to catch a great lightning shot. Finally, last evening, just after sunset, I was able to catch this one.

While it's not great, it sure is a lot more than I expected. It's fairly easy to catch lightning photos at night, since all you need to do is leave the shutter open on Bulb and close it once you catch the shot, but this one was beyond my greatest expectations.

I guessed at the settings, and while this one was a little underexposed, I was able to pull it out by shooting in RAW mode. Lucky for me, it hadn't started to rain, yet. As a matter of fact, it never did rain. All we got was an excellent light show.

Let me know what you think of this one.

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