2016-05-19, 05:03
(2016-05-19, 00:00). psper Wrote:(2016-05-18, 23:38)Lunarstorm777 Wrote: Right here with you as well. Love using this app for lightning photography. Only thing that would make it better is a night-time mode for the map. What sort of things are you having trouble with?
Hi Lunarstorm777,
I never use Blitzortung before because I only discovery Blitzortung APP 3 days ago, so until now I just use 30 min delayed lightning maps and what i see and ear. I never find a good position to take photos.
Second, normaly I was lost try to find lightning or really under the strom what is very dificult to take pics. I believe that most lightning photos are a litle bit far from the lightning or under some place that we can avoid rain to make 20/30 exposures.
I use an intrevalometer to take consecutive 20/30 exposures.
Hello to you as well,
I've been using Blitzortung for this reason for a while now. The phone app makes it a LOT easier to say the least. I usually use Blitzortung and also an app called "On your radar" for radar looping to guess where a storm is going.
As far as finding a good spot to shoot from, scout out locations during the day before a storm is predicted and mark them on a GPS unit. Then when a storm fires up you already know where you are going. Open fields are always good locations. I actually had a great shoot in the middle of my town one night from a parking garage. I won't bore anyone with warnings about lightning safety and risk, since, we all know what were getting into here.
I definitely try not to take pics from under a storm lol. Aside from being a prime lightning rod, usually, your gonna end up getting soaked. I try and stay at least a few miles away from the actual storm and try to stay ahead of it, since usually you will be rain wrapped otherwise. I usually have the best luck on days when "Isolated Thunderstorms" are forecast and not "Scattered Thunderstorms". Isolated storms usually leave more clear air to shoot the profile of a storm and get all of the lightning up in the tops of the clouds vs. the small percent that actually strikes the ground.
Anywho, just my 2 cents. Perhaps someone has better knowledge than I do. I wish I could find a cheap lightning predictor myself. Something that reads the potential charge in the atmosphere and makes a guess as to how long until the next strike. I saw a television show a few years ago with scientists firing rockets into storms to try and trigger lightning strikes. They had such a meter, but I haven't a clue how large, effective, or costly it was.