Firework Photography

After working around the house for several days, trying to get projects completed and mostly trying to sort through stuff we no longer need (tranlation moving piles of junk around) we decided to go visit our friends Hannah and Spencer. I took my camera along and gave a go at some firework photography. Some of these turned out pretty cool.

A couple of tricks I tried include:

• Auto-focus late at night can be a real problem. Try to auto-focus when there was a firework going off, and then switch to manual mode after it is set.


• To help the focus, use a large f-stop such as f22 in order to get a better depth of field


• Try a long exposure, and manually cover the lens when a particular firework is done. This allows blocking much of the excess light for a darker background. Although the appearance of fireworks over a well lit background can be pretty interesting too.


• Oh yea... Use a tripod

Judge for yourself