Some Essential Tips by Nitin Khanna on How to Photograph Fireworks

Use a tripod

• You will need a tripod tophotograph fireworks. As youwill be shooting in the dark andexposures are expected to be 10secs or more, the camera mustbe placed securely so thatcamera movement does notruin your shot.

• Also make sure that all the legsof a tripod are tightly sealed sothey won’t slide. Even a littleamount of slip can spoil thepicture, so don’t take thatchance.

Focus

• If it is so dark outside that you cannot even see your hand, the easiest technique is to manually focus the camera to infinity.

• You will be far enough from the fireworks that once the lens is set to infinity, you can just set it there. One more thing that you can do is, shine a torch onto something about one third of the way and focus on that point.

Turn off the flash

• Fireworks are so bright that using your camera’s flash won’t do anything to your shot. If you are using an SLR, lowering the flash and setting the camera to Manual mode will turn off the flash.

Playing with the exposure

• It is easy to overexpose or underexpose your fireworks shots. If you think that your fireworks are too bright, try changing your settings to get a darker sky and crustier fireworks.

Use Reflections

• If you are lucky enough to be photographing fireworks near a water body, then reflections work really great.

Look out your location in daytime

• If you want to visit alocal fireworks display,then it is certainly worthcasing the joint first!Observe everythingearlier; you shouldknow from where thefireworks are going tobe released and wherethe crowd will be, as itwill give you animpression of wherebest to set up.

Find a box or stepladder

• If you are lucky enough toget on some higherground to shoot, you aredoing great; if not, youmight find yourselftrapped behind a crowdof viewers. To framefirework neatly at thebase of your shot, you willdefinitely need yourtripod extended to its fullheight.

About the Author

I am Nitin Khanna, a passionate Photographer from Portland, Oregon. I have been working as a

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