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Originally Posted by M_Six
I wonder how well it would work to use a 3 or 6-stop ND filter for shooting lightning. You could go with long shutter times without the normal surrounding lights flaring up and the lightning would still be bright enough to show up in the image.
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I found that when I got much over about 13 seconds, the lightning started to become more faint. And if I made it to about 30 seconds, it was almost non existent. and the sky would just be lighter from all the lightning around.
seems like that 8-15 second window seems to work. Thats just my experience so far, more practice is needed, perhaps using a graduated filter upside down to dim the lights would help a bit.
I desaturated yellow to turn the heat down from some of the lights in the area which helped, and I didn't notice it change the sky at all.