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Photographing Fireworks, Step by Step
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mocojez 
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 05:41 AM
That was a very informative article. It would have been more useful to me though, if you'd published it on or before June 30th. I assume you have a large number of subscribers who, like me, live in Canada. Perhaps you don't know or don't care that Canada day is July 1st, and maybe you think of us as foreigners, but as a potential 10% of your North American audience, it might serve your interests to have a Canadian calendar hanging somewhere in your San Francisco office. Most of us even speak the same language, you know?
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ww1065
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 09:48 AM
I agree; I wish this had shown up a week earlier as much of the US had local and regional fireworks taking place last weekend to allow people to get to the more major shows. I live in an area with several major civil war battlefields (one is literally across the road from my house), and this previous weekend, we had several fireworks celebrations on different nights.
I heartily agree that you should not zoom in, unless you are really far away (zooming will also 'slow' the lens). If you are close enough that the sounds shake your insides, you may be surprised at just how wide the fireworks are.
Plus by not zooming in you will be more likely to catch all the fireworks as they don't always fire them to the same area of the sky. If the camera has a reasonable pixel count, you can use Paintshop, the GIMP, or another editor and crop the empty sky out of the picture while maintaining the original picture size. This will help create "zoom". It has worked well for me in the past with my Sony DSC-H2. Be sure to do your cropping before you do any resizing of the picture for the best looking picture.
Oh, BE SURE TO TURN THE FLASH OFF!!! I am shouting because it seems over half the photographers annoy everybody else with a series of flashes when they take a shot. Also, you can turn the rear LCD off and use the optical or internal viewfinder once you have it set up. It is surprising how bright an LCD viewfinder can be at night.
@PCWorld: On page 4; is that a lightning discharge in the background? If so, it looks like Mother Nature was celebrating, too!!
I heartily agree that you should not zoom in, unless you are really far away (zooming will also 'slow' the lens). If you are close enough that the sounds shake your insides, you may be surprised at just how wide the fireworks are.
Plus by not zooming in you will be more likely to catch all the fireworks as they don't always fire them to the same area of the sky. If the camera has a reasonable pixel count, you can use Paintshop, the GIMP, or another editor and crop the empty sky out of the picture while maintaining the original picture size. This will help create "zoom". It has worked well for me in the past with my Sony DSC-H2. Be sure to do your cropping before you do any resizing of the picture for the best looking picture.
Oh, BE SURE TO TURN THE FLASH OFF!!! I am shouting because it seems over half the photographers annoy everybody else with a series of flashes when they take a shot. Also, you can turn the rear LCD off and use the optical or internal viewfinder once you have it set up. It is surprising how bright an LCD viewfinder can be at night.
@PCWorld: On page 4; is that a lightning discharge in the background? If so, it looks like Mother Nature was celebrating, too!!
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