Yes, I find it's best to find the darkest possible location possible so you can leave the shutter open longer w/o over-exposing unwanted light sources. I use basically the same approach as the weatherscapes site suggests, with decent results. Patience is the key, you may need to take dozens of exposures just to get one with a good zot in it. Also, if you're locked down on a tripod, you can take several lightning shots and composite them in Photoshop.

Good luck and wear rubber shoes!

I guessed when doing mine: people.tribe.net/btd/photo...47b939bbda
I knew to do a B setting, and having done some long exposures before (of night time street scenes), I guessed 30 seconds, opened the shutter and counted, and hoped a bolt would happen.
It was a particularly intense storm, and I got one (as you can see) - after a few attempts.

The camera was a non-name brand from the 80's, no electronics, no auto-anything. (Cosina CT-1A if you really want to know).
The lens was a 35mm-200mm Vivitar.
Film was probably the cheap band of ASA 100 - but might have been 400. Sorry it was 21 years ago!

Yeah, I caught this one back in 1999 when we had that huge storm in San Jose.


rodmphoto.com/old/lsbrm/lightnin.html


Shot it with my Hasselblad, Fuji Astia 100 film, 4second exposure time @ f/5.6