Lightning photos

[Steelrfan85]

Any suggestions for lightning late evening? It would be cool to take in the dark but that sounds even more complicated. I have Mavic pro.

 

[Thomas B]

Once you work out the camera settings, do a video and then edit out the stills with lightning.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

Any suggestions for lightning late evening? It would be cool to take in the dark but that sounds even more complicated. I have Mavic pro.

I got agree that filming in 4 K and than going thru frame by frame your going to get best bang for your Buck.
One storm I got over 100 Pics of the Lightning in the pitch black as the the city lights went out.

Something like this is what you can expect.

Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly in the Rain
Coal

 

[Steelrfan85]

Awesome picture! Hopefully I can get even close to that.

 

[spud1969]

We just had a very intense (2000+ strikes) lightning storm up here in the Seattle area last Saturday night. Was also POURING rain so I didn't even think about flying, let alone even go outside.

 

[Steelrfan85]

I took the pro up yesterday at dusk with a lightning storm but with video is was black. Turned up the iso to 400 trying to see anything. Of course there was a lot of noise. I got clearer with photo. But I wanted to film in 4K to get some good quality to take stills from. Any thoughts?

 

[Steelrfan85]

That was my picture. No lightning but clearer than my black video. Just wanted to show there was light outside still but the video was black.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

I went up also and I captured this : Appears as a dome of light covering the city and than the Lightning strike is captured by the zoom.
Everything starts off black into the actoin happens and you have to thru frame by frame on the 4 K to catch the bolts as they are super sonic fast.

Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly in and out of the storm
Coal

Notice the Dome of light over the city before the actual strike of lighting and the the sky lights up above but not below as the camera captures it frame by frame.