When I show someone (non-photographer) a lightning photo, they always ask: "How do you get the timing to press the trigger exactly when the lightning is there?"

I find this rather funny, because of course that's not the way it is done. I think most here know how to shoot lightning, but if there's someone, who don't:

Here are some tricks:

- set your camera to the lowest possible ISO (100 or 50)

- set your focus manual to infinity

- set your camera to full manual mode

- of course: use a tripod!

- set your exposure to about 30 seconds

- set the aperture to approx 8-16

- use a wide-angle lens, so you cover a big area of the sky

(thats for the night... if your shooting at day or dawn, the pictures will be much too ...