fireworks shooting tip?

[leica1215]

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today is the last day in 2017, believe many of us will be shooting fireworks, I haven't tried before,   tips like shutter speed, aperture, iso range? 

 

thanks for sharing

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[pop]

Use a tripod or a comparable support for your camera.

The visual effects of fireworks are created by moving projectiles. Use fairly long exposure times so that the traces drawn by the projectiles become visible.

Fireworks experts prefer the environment being visible as well and not only the firework itself; it shows the mastery of the fireworking craft to better advantage, they claim.

This picture has been taken with a D-Lux 3, 100 ISO, 2 seconds. It demonstrates, I believe, some of the more important do's and dont's.

 

 

[leica1215]

Manual focus to infinity? Aperture wise?

 

 

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[pop]

Infinity, as the fireworks are quite far away. f 1/4.0 (as open as it would go). As you can see, it's too dark.

[pico]

When young, I was impressed when a local kid shot fireworks using a folding camera and bulb flash more-or-less working by the book. The flash of course was unnecessary, ineffective but the shutter speed was just right to catch the blooms. Looking at my old stuff, M sync was 1/25 or 1/50th.

Edited December 30, 2017 by pico