Your Best Lightning Shot to date...

[Jay Goldberg]

Incredible photos! These aren’t nearly dramatic but took them flying about FL350 over Texas.

 

[Ethan Schisler]

Collage of a few of my favorite lightning photos during the 2016 season I create a long while back. I need to go back and redo this for lightning shots I've gotten the past few years.

 

[Jay Goldberg]

Fantastic. Can wait to be out chasing one day with my gear. I shoot with a 5D Mark IV which does incredible at night although it’s not dark during lightning

 

[David Amos]

Forgot to use my Rokinon 14mm would have got more in. Oh well, live and learn. Still love it though. Taken in Powhatan VA summer 2018

 

[michael beard]

Shooting a squall line near Rhome, TX last year.

 

[Brad Nelson]

May 16, 2017 near Gotebo, Oklahoma. UNREAL lightning strike that occurred directly in front of our car and right in the middle of my camera frame. Probably will never get a lightning shot even comparable again in my lifetime. I was in the car and had a remote trigger for my camera. Settings were ISO 100, f/22, and 20 second exposure.

 

[Matthew Fischer]

I shot this out my balcony door at my apartment on August 20th 2017. Using my Canon EOS Rebel T3, F/3.5, ISO 100, Exposure was 3.2 seconds and focal length was 18mm. I only toned down the exposure a little on the flash on photoshop to bring out the bolts a little more.

 

[TimMaynard]

Probably the best one I can find in my albums. Shot near Lamesa, TX. Late May 2016.

 

[Steve Miller]

Admin note: Just a reminder to everyone to consider uploading your BEST lightning photos to the media area here on ST as well as this thread. Our media area is great for exposure and images ALWAYS remain the property of their originator.

 

[Mikayla Norris]

Just now got around to looking through a timelapse I did of an over night line of severe storms back in the early morning hours of 18 May. The line eventually produced multiple EF2 and EF3 tornadoes in and around San Angelo, Ballinger, and Abilene, TX. These are the best lightning grabs I was able to get so far

 

[TimMaynard]

Bennington 2 in May 2016 was a great tornado and then after it got rain wrapped we headed back and got a beautiful lightning show

 

[Adam Lucio]

Hands down this is mine. Caught it on June 14th on a severe storm near Kalvesta, KS. Not a stack and not a trigger. Just a 3" exposure where I happened to press the button at the right time for once

 

[James K]

Hands down this is mine.

That is flat out awesome
(as are some of the above images)

 

[Ryan Doan]

June 5, 2010. Streator Illinois. This was the same day/night I saw tornadoes for the first time.

 

[J Kerste]

From Milliken Co 6-15-19

 

[J Kerste]

Storm in the Commerce City area just North of Denver. 6-28-19

 

[Allen Lieberman]

Tonight’s fireworks, nature competing with mankind.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2368269393240476&id=932754076792022

 

[Mike Z]

 

[Allen Lieberman]

Taken a few minute ago. The scrawniest lightning producing tower I’ve come across.

 

[J Kerste]

Looking south towards Denver 7-11-19

 

[Ron Risman]

This is a stacked image of a lightning storm I captured back in 2017.

 

[Shawn Schaefer]

Not a great photographer yet, it’s a work in progress. This is from my front yard in Mesa, AZ late July, 2018.

 

[Stu Short]

Taken this year in New Mexico, beginning of June.

 

[Stu Short]

The McCook, Nebraska tornado. Probably the most dramatic lightning shot I've taken.

 

[robgilmore]

These are mine, taken a few days ago, I have never really tried to photograph lightning before, low ISO and long exposure time. Canon 800D and a 50mm prime lens. Next time I hope to have a lightning trigger to make things easier. Taken in Suffolk , UK.