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HELP! Canada Day is coming up, any firework photography tips?

~Kikis-Take-On-Life Jun 28, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I own a Nikon D3100 (fyi), and I was wondering what kind of settings do you use to get nice clear photos for fireworks? Thanks so much. :$

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~Listen-To-Your-Heart Jul 1, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Hi...If you have a tripod it helps a lot to steady your shots.

There are ways you can steady the camera more by using things like:
the side of a lamp post, roof of a car, wrapping the camera strap around your arm and holding tight to the body.

For taking the picture itself use manual mode on the camera at ISO400 or ISO800 setting and 1/50-1/60 sec shutter speed with your aperature wide open should work fine.

Auto focus systems get "confused" trying to focus in the dark, so use manual focus and pick
on area to pre-set focus for. This is good to do when the fireworks are going up over buildings and you have a reference to focus on.

Check in my gallery and it may give you a few ideas as I have some fireworks stuff done at night around buldings. (they were all taken on 35mm ISO400 color slide )

Take a couple of test pictures before it gets too dark so you can see what your camera will
be seeing fo the area you wanna shoot in.

Good luck..

~Svenler Jun 30, 2012 Professional Photographer

Use the fireworks as the background to an interesting foreground.

^Kaz-D Jun 29, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

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~rcooper102 Jun 28, 2012

Calculate your depth of field before hand so you can have the focus all set up to be sure to keep the fireworks in focus. Also I would say try to think of creative ways to make your firework shots unique. Fireworks are cool but also cliche. Like landscapes and flowers they are a dime a dozen. Try to think of a creative way to add a taste of your own creativity to a very common subject.

~rcooper102 Jun 28, 2012

Also I am sure you have seen many of those firework shots where it looks like they shot off a bazillion at once and lit up the whole sky. Often that is done with multiple exposures by the photographer so don't be alarmed if they don't shoot their entire arsenal into the sky at once for you to capture

=Recoat Jun 28, 2012

Tripod, small aperture, and longer shutter speeds (cable release is a good idea). Try keeping your ISO as low as possible too. I did some hand-held fireworks shots with success, but there was fuzziness to the images. My aperture was around f/8 and shutter speed was about 1/60th. ISO was 400.

Good luck!

~Kikis-Take-On-Life Jun 28, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you!

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