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I see a lot of lightning shots snatched from a video source but it's easy to get without resorting to video and I think the non video images are crisper (though I'd love to get a huge coastal storm with multiple strikes one day)
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I've been shooting lightning for years, it's always been a favourite target and one day it will probably get me, I stand out in big electrical storms in bare feet on grass, no possible easy target at all. The first lightning shots I ever got were with 35mm film and I sat on the ridge capping on a tin roof (bare legs draped either side of tin roof) in a huge electrical storm in Young (NSW) wearing shorts, no shirt and no shoes, yes, I'm an IDIOT at times but I'm still here.
I put my tripod/ball head mounted camera on bulb exposure (no good if it's too bright out), set my ISO depending on the severity of the storm (all guess work), the f stop depending on light conditions and use a remote trigger and hold the shutter open for up to around 15 seconds hoping to get a single shot. If I see a flash where the camera is pointing I release the shutter within 1 second of the flash. I'll check the images aren't blown out and adjust my times depending on that (and set the f stop). My timing is just a count in my head, no actual timer but I believe I know roughly what 1 second is.
I then come inside and go through hundreds of shots to see what I have but I have some remarkable images using that method.
Leon recently mentioned buying a dedicated trigger for his trip up North, I don't know how that worked but I know his trip was cut short because of health.
I can't find the folder, my son probably put it something appropriately named (I have Jupiter in a folder named "Lightning") but I recently played with burst mode on my Samsung S8 phone and got a couple of shots of lightning, took around 1,000 shots but got 2 usable images with lightning. It is all pot luck with my method, you either get lucky or not.
I have a bag with all of the electronic components to build a trigger device somewhere, I must look for the bits and do a circuit board for it, or find more components I'll have here somewhere if I can find the circuit again.
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