need some help, tips, experience lens? etc will be doing some exciting night shooting fireworks, watershow need some shooting help lens? wb? etc. thanks in advance marc
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.
The last time I shot fireworks was with my CoolPix 8700. They turned out great because of the "Fireworks" scene mode. I'm planning on trying my hand at this again this year, only with my new D70. I'll be watching this post closely for tips!! I can only tell you, the CoolPix chose a 4 second exposure, infinity focus, f/8.0... and no idea about white balance! I was too close and should have used the wide angle lens, but it was a location unfamiliar to me, and I was poorly set-up. Advice I read recently in another forum is to try to set up so that you can include a skyline or something to provide a sense of scale and a "backdrop" for the fireworks scene. I did not do this and can tell you it would have made a HUGE improvement! Any fireworks pro's out there? P.S. If you think you should set focus for something other than infinity, wear a helmet! :lol:
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 appreciate, the llinks to the other sites and have visited but , what i really wanted was specific to nikon or canon dslr wb settings in particular, avoiding blowing highlights most of the places i have looked at, speak of film shooting they are very helpful and thanks to all, for their help m
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. {} View attachment 8230
