Lightning is one of the hardest things to photograph. One requiring intensive skill to be at the right moment while avoid becoming an obituary on the newspaper. It is fundamentally hard to get a photo like this one. One requiring constant experimentation to eventually perfect your craft of lightning photography. I am about to show you how much it takes when planning out and executing sutch photographs.
My first Videos Lightning
When I am at school I have a limited window of opportunity to get good Lightning photographs and videos. Some of my earliest photos on campus are lightning phots from summer storms fuelled by heat from a the suns sticky rays. Even then I had quite the preference for when and where to get them. Much of it was from dorm room windows. Currently some of my best photos are from simply taking photos from a window.
Here are a couple of good ones taken back in the summer of 2022.
1. Get them at Dusk or Night.
In Virginia most storms are wrapped in sheets of rain. Rarely do they show there true colors but only if you know where to look or; by shear dumb luck like in 2021 when I found myself with a video of some bead lightning.
Daylight flashes tend to be harder to catch making cloud to cloud lightning practically impossible; though cloud to ground lightning is a major exception. For Amature photographer like myself Dusk to Nightfall is when lightning shows all her whites.
Dusk is a pretty good time to check the beautiful structures of cumulonimbus clouds this rare opportunity around golden hour is a good time cloud to cloud bolts from a distance