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I had an extensive bellows set-up mounted on my solid tripod, and as thunderstorms normally only have their
peak during a short time interval, I decided to improvise. I put a book on the window frame and used that as a
support for the camera. The camera was rested on the book, but I had to incline the set-up in order to get enough
sky into the picture to get a more interesting composition and increase my chances of capturing the lightning.
Because of this, the set-up was not in equilibrium and I had to support it using my hands. Hence, it was by no means
easy to prevent this whole set-up from shaking during some 2 minutes!
I used an aperture of f16 to be able to do long exposures without burning out the foreground too quickly. The exposure
of the foreground was purely guesstimated using experience gained over the years during previous attempts of similar
shots (which, BTW, all failed miserably). Out of some 15 pictures I took, some 4 of them came out pretty well, and
this was the best of them. Unfortunately the street lanterns caused some significant flare, and I did not have the
opportunity to find a location that would have yielded a slightly more interesting foreground/composition.
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