[bikinkawboy]

I've found that when taking photos of lighting or lightning embedded in clouds, you need to experiment with different white balances. Sometimes I've had AUTO return the best results, other times, daylight and other times shade. If there are stars and you don't want streaking, you pretty much need to keep the exposure time below 30 seconds. If possible, I like to use an ISO of 400 or lower, but sometimes I need to go to 800 or higher. For non-storm nighttime photos, I often use an old manual Nikon 50mm f1.8 E lens on my DSLRs.