Ramblings

I saw a dark thunderstorm cell moving across Lake Ontario last weekend. It was an isolated patch that added drama to the sunset instead of obscuring it. That was cool enough, but I wanted to catch the lightning bolts that flickered beneath it. But I couldn't react fast enough to press the shutter when I saw the flash. By the time I could snap, it was gone.

Here's how I caught one on my iPhone: I used the burst photo mode to take successive bursts shots at ten frames per second. I just held down the shutter button until the burst indicator reached 200, then released it and immediately held it down again. After I repeated this about eight or ten times, I finally saw a flash. I opened the burst and scrubbed through the frames until I found the one that had the lightning bolt on it and selected that as the key frame. When I saved, Photos asked me if I wanted to save just the selected frame, and I answered yes. Then it was a simple matter to delete the bursts that hadn't captured anything. Voila.

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