How to photograph lightning, how to photograph storms such as tornadoes, and other storm chasing questions are frequent in photography. Today I’m focused on how to photograph lightning. Lightning photography is really a matter of timing. According to NOAA lightning moves on 60,000 miles per second, so try to time a if it strikes a low chance at best.
If you want to really improve your chances of photographing lighting you need to use a long shutter speed, usually a few seconds (start about 15 seconds). If you all foreground objects as a city that you will need to verify that you are not about exposing of the city lights as well as his including so take a test shot or two to find the right setting combination that you the time you need to capture the lightning.
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Lightning photo by snowpeak
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