fireworks,fireworks,fireworks

Geeeewizzzz, nobody yet. I would like to know as well.

Hope you have great success and a great time. Where in florida. I'm in Brevard county and the weather is yuk.

Please share your experience, and trials and errors so I can learn.

 

Put fireworks photography in Goggle and you will find a host of web sites with tips, tricks, and techniques for this subject. It has been a popular subject over the years.

 

Check those out:

http://www.nyip.com/tips/current/digfirewks.php

http://www.nyip.com/tips/current/firewks.php

http://www.calphoto.com/firework.htm

http://www.garryblack.com/fireworks.htm

 

I shot these with a Fuji S2 but I think the setting would be about the same.

Auto WB,
RAW
Manual program
F5.6 with Bulb exposure (I used around 1-8 sec)
ISO 100
Tripod of course

Turn on the blinkies so you can see on the LCD how much your blowing out and then shorten or extend your exposure. Be careful of the finalely because there will be a lot of light. You'll need much short exposure for it.

 

I've shot fireworks a couple of times using a D70 and the kit lens.

You have to decide the framing by trial and error - take one shot and then zoom out or in according to what you see on the LCD.

I used F22 and manually set focus to infinity. In aperture priority the camera wanted to give it the maxium 30 seconds, but I tried everything from around 2 second to the full 30. The main difference seems to be that with a longer exposure you get the whole trajectory of the burst on one frame, which can be quite interesting.

Some people recommend setting a long exposure and using a black card in front of the lens between bursts. I haven't tried this myself.

Here are a couple of my attempts. It was a windy night, as you can see from the 'drifting' in some of the trails.