It has been stormin like crazy here for the last two days. Check out the pics.

Great timing with the pictures

Wow... how did you capture so much lightning?

I stood in my patio doors for about an hour and a half. I took about 60 or so pics! Needless to say it is very hard to catch lightning without a fast shutter. I did my best though most of them were too slow. It stormed like that for about 6 or so hours straight yesterday! The most I have seen in one day.

sweet lightning pics.. looks like the lightning in the 4th one was coming right for you

Awesome pics! We're supposed to get some storms here, potentially severe, and I ain't had much chance to play with my new camera...

Hmmm......

Hard to get good lightning pics, as you noticed, lol. It takes time, patience, and luck.

Nice storm pics!

Check out this bad boy. That'* ONE monster bolt:
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Can you manually set the shutter speed on your camera? If you can, set it on the slowest speed possible, mount the camera on a tripod, push the button halfway down to autofocus (shadow! ), then click a shot & hope lightning strikes. I took about 100 pictures of nothing but black sky - my shutter would stay open for about 8 seconds - but if I was lucky enough to have the shutter open and was pointed at the right part of the sky, I got things like this. Very little skill and a great amount of luck!

Thanks for the tip. Thats a great shot. I will have to look into that. Although I only took about 60 total and got the pics shown. I only have a 10" tripod so I would need a table. LOL! Thanks for the comments everyone. I am glad to say the sun has been out all day today finally.

You don't need much of a tripod - just need something to stabilize the camera cuz the shutter'* open so long. You've got some great reaction time. I tried to click the shot when I saw the flash but the signal path from my eye to my brain to my finger must have some construction zones in it. Never could make that work. If I could figure out how to hold my shutter open longer than 8 seconds I'd have better luck capturing more flashes!