Mike Olbinski Photography
Dump
July 25th last year...one of those nights you drive west towards a crappy storm just hoping, and you get rewarded for your efforts. People say lightning photography is hard, and it is. You have to chase almost every opportunity to up your chances at something great. Persistence, persistence.
The other hard part is exposure. This image was underexposed because I was just doing a time-lapse and lost track of keeping the shutter speed changing...so there is more noise than I want in the image.
But even if you are totally focused on what is in front of you, bolts vary in intensity and while one can blow out your frame, another can be too dark to even light up the clouds around it. Such a battle to get the perfect exposure.
Dump
July 25th last year...one of those nights you drive west towards a crappy storm just hoping, and you get rewarded for your efforts. People say lightning photography is hard, and it is. You have to chase almost every opportunity to up your chances at something great. Persistence, persistence.
The other hard part is exposure. This image was underexposed because I was just doing a time-lapse and lost track of keeping the shutter speed changing...so there is more noise than I want in the image.
But even if you are totally focused on what is in front of you, bolts vary in intensity and while one can blow out your frame, another can be too dark to even light up the clouds around it. Such a battle to get the perfect exposure.