Blitzortung and Photography
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(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.
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Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-18, 14:37
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-18, 20:37
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by chubros - 2016-05-18, 18:47
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-18, 20:36
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-19, 00:00
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by Lunarstorm777 - 2016-05-19, 05:03
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by cutty - 2016-05-30, 20:31
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-30, 21:42
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by rodalco - 2016-05-23, 05:29
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-29, 15:42
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by robo - 2016-05-29, 15:57
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by Tobi - 2016-05-30, 15:25
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by robo - 2016-05-30, 16:37
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by chubros - 2016-05-31, 09:18
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-30, 16:51
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by psper - 2016-05-30, 16:54
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by robo - 2016-05-30, 16:58
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by Tobi - 2016-05-31, 19:51
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by chubros - 2016-05-31, 20:07
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by piepants - 2016-09-05, 11:07
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by kevinmcc - 2016-09-05, 15:16
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by piepants - 2016-10-10, 11:41
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by cc1309 - 2016-10-13, 13:05
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by piepants - 2016-11-08, 10:19
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by chubros - 2016-12-12, 20:23
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by piepants - 2017-02-18, 03:03
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by Mike6158 - 2017-03-30, 03:04
RE: Blitzortung and Photography - by chubros - 2018-06-12, 09:37
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