Most LF lightning photography is done on a time exposure random luck basis. My luck has never been that good. A few years ago I was set up at a spot in the Ruby Mtns of Nevada where, all at the same time, there was a phenomenal sunset one direction, a gigantic thunderstorm beside that, actually below us above the valley, and behind us, the Perseid meteor shower. I bagged a couple of so-so sunset shots, but my friend videoed 3 hours of 180 degree view. The day before it was one of those incidents under a sunny blue sky when as soon as we poked our noses over the top of a pass, there was a gigantic wall of black coming at us at about 30 mph. No time to pull out any kind of camera. Just about 7 min retreating fast from the top lightning was hitting all around it, and by the time we got to the cover of a few trees a few hundred yards downhill to put on raingear, we were already drenched. That lightning storm went on about another 8 hrs.