Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-06-20 | Page 11 | How to Photograph Lightning Section

HOW TO photograph LIGHTNING A great number of articles have been written regard loe the speed of modern lenses and one lens manufacturer his make of lens as being speedy enough to catch a flash of lightning to the person this seems a miracle jet there la no subject that the amateur may select which Is more easily photographed than a flash of lightning aud there are few subjects which make a more artistic photograph mr nickard S barrett of N T who this photograph tells bow it was done the exposure must be made at night Is the whole of success alen a thunderstorm occur learn the direction of its approach and point and cocu the camera in that direction if a box camera Is used no focusing 13 needed if a cycle model Is used at a hundred or more feet the camera resting on a tripod or other support uncap the lens or open the shutter and leave open until a brilliant flash makes its appearance within the field of the lens then close abe shutter or cap the lens at once and you will find that you have a negative a alch upon development hlll give you a flash of lightning photo pay no attention to the minor flashes or to what I 1 called theet as both forms add to the detail ot your nega alte walt or the brilliant fl ashor chain lightning and the rarer 0 light will with its great intensity photograph itself the photograph which the writer was made with a single lens costing leas than 2 there are foreign residents in switzerland of these hare settled since 1890