Lightning Photography

By Sandra | January 9, 2023

Lightning Photography, the other morning I woke up to the sound of thunder and rain. I got up and looked outside and off to the east I saw a lot of lightning. So I quick checked the weather station as to where the storm was from my location.

It was way off to the east so I quickly grabbed my camera gear and headed out to find a spot to set up my camera. I was almost to late, I was able to get a short video and about 8 photos as the storm raced across the morning sky.

Short Video below or this Link; Lightning Strikes over Water

I actually only used my Go Pro camera for this series of photos. I attached the go pro to the front bumper on my jeep. There is actually a hitch on the front of the jeep that sticks up high and I attached the go pro to the end of it and went back inside the jeep and watched the lightning show.

My settings for these shots are; 20 second intervals with a 15 sec shutter speed and ISO of 100.

I then took all the good photos I had and stacked them on top each other to get the final results of the photo below. It combined all the lightning strikes together.