The moment I saw flashes outside my window, I grabbed my 5D with 16-35mm 2.8L, remote and tripod. I wanted to create a time lapse, so each frame had to be fast enough shutter to allow enough frames, rather than low ISO and long shutter speeds. Each frame is ISO 400, f/13 at 5.6 seconds. The view is out my balcony in Fort Lee, NJ.
Woah, that’s intense! I didn’t know that one individual lightning could split off into so many separate branches.
AWESOME!
PS: are you in either Hampshire House or Whiteman?
I am in the Whiteman
That does not even look real. I loveeee the video though. So cool.
Very cool pics, Tony!
Is that a shooting star at 0:29? I’ve never seen one before…
Wow….
aewsome sweetness
Probably not a shooting star- it is Manhattan after all, surrounded by at least 3 airports. Too cloudy to see anything above the stratosphere.
That video is very very cool.. You could sell that to a tv station I’m sure, or probably a stock library at least.
Fantastic pictures! I was out running in Brooklyn Heights during this storm — I got soaked, but it was totally worth it for the light show! P.S. The year is wrong in the “Lightning over Manhattan” video caption.
It wasn’t a shooting star. During a Thunder storm, I highly doubt it. You never see 3 lights shoot so fast one after another. Airplanes would never fly in that close in such bad weather. I’m not saying anything but everyone has their own opinion.