Galileo's Camera

I have not been able to do any decent astrophotogaphy sessions recently. The rains are here and here comes the lightening shots. I'm fascinated of how it always strikes over the sea. All photos were taken with a 30s exposure F8.0 and F5.6 on a tripod. That actually makes it easier to capture lightening. You don't really have to do anything. The downside is that if there is some sort of ambient lighting, then your photo is likely to get washed out. You can step around this problem by having smaller exposure times.

Since any celestial photography is out due to the rains, I thought I might as well capture that. All photos were taken with a Canon 18-55mm (at 18mm) and a Canon 550D. The first photo has an exposure time of 15s and all others are with an exposure time of 30s. The photos have been post-processed for contrast and exposure.