⚡Meine Gewitter Saisoneröffnung ⚡My Thunderstorm season opening⚡

Finally, after we already had some bad storms here at Lake Constance, which had rolled broadly equipped with heavy rain over us, I had this time some more luck. During storms which sometimes form fronts up to a hundred kilometers wide and send heavy rainfalls ahead of and behind the actual thunderstorm, it is somewhat difficult to realize beautiful flashes. Often such weather phenomena are also characterized by a mass of internal cloudy lightning and nearly no earth lightning at all, i.e. lightning which usually have a strong main strand that strikes somewhere on the ground.

But as I said this time I had a bit more luck, I say a bit... the problem with this relatively small thunderstorm was, how often, it started quite early in the evening, before sunset. So at the beginning of the shooting I could only capture the weather scenery and the motif Radolfzell and Lake Constance in front of it, the flashes remained unrecognisable in the photos. Only later, when I changed the location, it became gradually so dark, that the flashes were to be recognized well. Unfortunately, I also had some bad luck, so I missed three magnificent flashes, which hit exactly between two exposures, which was partly due to the fact that there were always a few minutes between the individual flashes. Ok the foreground and the place I chose was perhaps not quite optimal but it was also a rather spontaneous undertaking. In conclusion, I would say that I am still reasonably satisfied, for a warmup shooting quite good 👍 For all the (hobby) photographers who have now smelled blood :D I want to announce here again my next big tutorial, which will deal with the flash photography and which will appear here in the next days.

But first of all I'll show you the more or less successful results of my personal warm-up.

So long and until soon

Daniel