How to capture lightning strike

[Android Central Question]

Hi everyone, does anybody know how to take a picture of lightning strike with pixel 2? What setting do you use?
Thanks ahead

 

[Photo_Drew]

when I tried this with my dslr years ago I just set the timer and duration.

with my phone I haven't tried lightning but I did some time lapse. I would look into that and then take the still image from the time lapse

 

[Rukbat]

You can't with a phone camera unless you use an app like LenX. Choose a location with no lights, on a night that's particularly dark. Mount the camera securely. Have the camera pointing in the direction of the storm (it generally won't be easy if you're in the middle of the storm). Open the shutter. Wait until a lightning flash then close the shutter. If you're lucky, and the picture didn't totally overexpose (the amount of light coming from a direct bolt even a few miles away is unbelievable), you'll get a good shot of a lightning stroke.

(@Photo_Drew - if you do the same thing with an SLR - set it to B and wait for the strike, you'll get the same effect. Focus on infinity and don't worry about sensitivity or opening - just hope that the sensor doesn't get overwhelmed. If you can't get one with a DSLR, an old Kodak box camera [what you can buy at a yard sale for 25 cents] gets great lightning shots if you want to process the film yourself - I don't know if anyone does film processing commercially any more.)

And don't worry about the color of the strike - it depends on whether it's a leader or direct strike, and the fact that the exposure is too short for the sensor to react properly. It can be anywhere from pure blinding white to bluish purple.

 

[Fisherguy 01]

Someone on a local FB group posted some unreal lightning pics, she said she recorded videon on her iPhone and extracted a frame from that. Not sure how to do that on a droid.

 

[hallux]

Someone on a local FB group posted some unreal lightning pics, she said she recorded videon on her iPhone and extracted a frame from that. Not sure how to do that on a droid.

Same way - record a video and use a video editing app to pull the single frame...