 jacqueline mcabery |
How to Shoot Lightning? I am wondering how to shoot lightning. What shutter and aperture, but more importantly. how do you know when to click the shutter? We don't get lightning that often where I live, and if we do, not repeatedly in same storm. Thank you.
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Simone Severo |
If you see it, you lost it. To photograph lightning, you need to check the weather and set yourself in a safe place. Put your camera on a tripod, use the hyperfocal distance to set the focus and have great depth of field, and make long exposures. You have to guess. If you are lucky, taking a series of about 30 or more, you may have one or more lightning strikes in a picture. I once photographed lightning with a 3-minute exposure at night. During the 3 minutes, the shutter was open, many lightning strikes happened and the film captured. It is not easy. It is a lot of patience. You need many pictures of some seconds or maybe minutes, and keep trying :) Moni
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Amy Lindsey |
I would suggest joining a storm chasing tour. They are somewhat expensive, but well worth every penny. They usually stop after the tornado (if you catch one) and will allow participants to take lightning photos. Many serious amateur photogs take these tours. I've been with my college team numerous times and have had pretty good luck. The trick is to locate yourself either near the "anvil" of the storm (front part) for real cool "anvil crawlers"- they're beautiful and much less dangerous than cloud-to-ground bolts. I suggest you have a good knowledge of various storm structures before you go. BE CAREFUL!! Amy Lindsey
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