Legend explanation of fireworks shooting

Fireworks in the sky can be classified as large being taken from the most difficult to shoot in a class, because of the need to take into account the great height,

Fireworks in the sky can be classified as large being taken from the most difficult to shoot in a class, because the need to consider the height, size, speed setting, Aperture, shutter speed, and so on, if you lack experience, are not good.

More important is the chance of waste pieces was very high, in order to get a good picture usually have to pay 10 more than the price of scrap piece, this time we take as an example for EOS 350D.

Many Fireworks General Assembly is held in the summer, the summer temperatures are high, not only very high humidity.

Usually the number of shots of fireworks 10 metres away, there was no need to take into account the problems of humidity, but when the distance to reach hundreds of meters or more than 1 km, the humidity high, like a frosted glass, want to shoot beautiful photos will not be possible.

Although most beginning stressed the difficulties, only said that compared to film machine, digital opportunity more economic.

Canon EOS 350D + tenglong AF 28-300mm f3.5-6.3 XR DI, shutter line is RS-60E3

Fireworks photography features

We usually shoot objects are affected by the reflective objects, but fireworks will self-luminous, a night view of that and more akin to photography.

Therefore, in accordance with the nightscape photography with Aperture F8 or even to F11. If you set the aperture to F4, F5.6, Fireworks Flash part nearby become white, is not optimal. But if you use the F16 or F22 aperture so, produces diffraction, into an all-white photos, so too is recommended.

Shutter speed basically use B door, there is no fixed time.

This is the night view of a shot and a great difference. Night scene of lighting because it is a continuous glowing, according to the decision to shutter speed will be relatively easy, but fireworks did not know when, what kind of light is issued cannot be predicted. The so-called Fireworks is Flash, side emitting side movement (fall or because the exploding all fly). In order to record the light path, use the B gates. Iso 100. There is no need to use 400 or 800 such high ISO noise.

The iso setting to 100, the aperture setting to F8 or F11, shutter, shutter time, flew from Fireworks to burn, a short story about 1 second, long Word to 30 seconds.

Speed/white balance/focal length

Typhoon relatively better weather, night humidity will lower to photography.

Recommended locations off the Fireworks points, with a large zoom lens without will head up too high, regardless of the shot or shooting posture is better.

3,456 × 2,304/2 (sec)/F11/± 0/100/auto/154mm focal length

Practical shooting

Exposure to resolve after solving focusing issues.

In the dark sky and even determine location reference, so some of us to follow some rules.

Fireworks appear before we must remember that the launch and photography is very far from the point of distance, the dark do not use AF AF and MF to switch to manual focus, the focal length set at infinity.

This ready.

Recommended lens is equivalent focal length 42-450mm (28-300mm big zoom head) for 500 m away from the launch to 3 km.

With large zoom head, almost all the fireworks are overwritten.

Finally, the wide angle lens to the client.

The initial fireworks on the day immediately press the shutter, to Fireworks burst last rays disappeared down shutter, we can use the LCD to confirm whether or not to photograph, this is a convenient digital machines. If and what you thought it would be just ok. If not then adjust the focal length and composition.

To do so from the bottom side of the screen is split in the Middle start, finally able to get a full view of the Fireworks, but to do this more difficult.

Around and above the figure there are blank, so know what you want to put the focal length extension.