My favorite lightning shots taken - Part 1

By far, my favorite thing to photograph is lightning. When I am able to catch a good bolt or streak, I get excited and I want to photograph more. Here are some of my favorite lightning shots I have been able to catch.

Taken August 21st 2017 during a storm east of my house.

Taken May 01 2016 during a severe thunderstorm right outside my house.

Taken July 11 2014. This was my first and only full moon, stars, and lightning in one shot taken in Branch, La.

Taken September 13 2013 - My first cloud to ground strike shot south of Eunice, La.

Taken August 24 2015. This storm chase lasted around three hours and was shot south of Eunice, La.

I have been trying to capture lightning on and off since 2007 when I was stationed in San Angelo, Texas. I have been an official storm spotter since 2013 when I started storm spotting with Andy Thibodeaux of Cajun Weather Spotters here in southern Louisiana. His Facebook page is right here. If you are in the southern Louisiana area, give Andy a follow. He gives weather updates especially when there is severe weather in the area.

This is the first of many posts of my favorite lightning captures. I hope you like it. If you have any questions, please comment below. If you like my content, please like and subscribe.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. There is a chance of thunderstorms this weekend. Maybe I can get more lightning. Take care. Peace.

Tornado Warned Storm

Yesterday, we had several tornado warned storms in the area. Down here in southern Louisiana, we don’t get many tornado warned storms and we had quite a few. One of the storms passed by my house and I was able to get some pictures of it.

Another picture of the storm passing by my house.

I hope you enjoy these shots. There was a fatality from this storm not too far from where I live.

There are clear skies today and no chances of rain for next few days. I’m hoping we can dry out before we get more rain.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and week. Talk to y’all later. Peace.

Storm Chasing Chronicles #1

On May 16th, we had storms come through the area. I drove out to one of my favorite areas to storm spot and documented the storm chase.

I hope you enjoy the video. Please like, comment, and subscribe to my YouTube channel and here if you haven’t yet.

Thanks and have a good one. Peace.

Lightning Shots - 3 different ways

We had storms come through here in southern Louisiana yesterday and there was lots of lightning. Once my duty day ended at four o’clock, I got into my car and tried to get some lightning shots. I had my phone shooting video and my Samsung Gear 360 was going in the back of my car. The shots below are from three different ways I was able to capture lightning.

This still shot was taken from a video I took on my Samsung Galaxy S10+

This shot was taken with the Lightning Camera app.

This still shot was taken from a video taken with my Samsung Gear 360 camera.

There are different ways to capture lightning if you have the patience. For example, I took over 40 minutes of video with the 360 camera and this was the best lightning strike I got.

I hope you enjoyed the lightning shots as much as I enjoyed being out there and getting them. I love storm photography.

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How to Capture Lightning with your Phone

We recently had storms come through south of where I live. I was able to go out and get lightning shots. The video below is a quick tutorial on how I captured lightning with my phone.

I hope this is helpful for someone. If you have any questions, comments, please put them below. If you haven’t subscribed, please do.

Thanks and have a good one.

Lightning hunting

Last night, I went on a lightning hunt. Here in southern Louisiana, we had a marginal chance of thunderstorms/severe weather. Well, we got some and boy did we. In this post, I am going to share what I did to get shots like this with my phone.

Unedited shot taken with my Samsung Galaxy S10+ native camera

The Samsung Galaxy S10+ native camera has a professional setting, something like a DSLR. You can control everything with it: ISO, f-stop, focus, temperature, just about everything. I’ve been practicing during the last couple of storms to get this technique for using my phone down. These were my settings when I got this shot:

When I started shooting last night, the only difference was I had it set to 30 second shots, not 10 seconds. After a couple of washed out lightning strikes, I changed it to 10 seconds and the results were much better. The small sensor on the camera can not handle a lot of light. One of the key things for doing long exposure shots, you need to steady the phone somehow. Either use a tripod or a window mount for your car or some other way.

I hope this helps with those who want to catch lightning. Check out my last post for other camera options if you don’t have the Samsung Pro camera option on your phone.

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