Tips for shooting fireworks

Tips for shooting fireworks
New Year's Eve fireworks CANON PowerShot SD600 Charger I took some photos and upload to the "Photographers'Companion" get "Spring Photography Contest", received attention of many friends, and asked how to shoot. I then shared four tips for shooting, and now I put them into a post, so that more people shared. Although the film has passed the peak of fireworks, but the skills of knowledge is, but when!

First, the location shooting

Shooting CANON PowerShot SD630 Charger fireworks can also be regarded as a kind of landscape photography, and filming the most important landscape composition, on location choice is the key to composition. Shooting fireworks to try to choose a higher place, is the so-called "stand high and see far ahead!", Seat selection can be high not only panoramic view of fireworks, and can make some of the buildings as the foreground or background to make the screen more substantial and colorful .

If you can not find the height of the location, then you should try to use some light to fill vacancies in your screen, for example, track lights!

But no matter what the location Ye Hao, shooting fireworks are always less people and more places, with Friends of the impact of like-minded people out there, most often the location for several hours before the start of the tripod have been packed with faithful shadow . And people who watch a lot of people. Therefore, if you go to popular places to shoot the fireworks, there should be prepared to wait a long time, there are friends to the best shot, go away for a while have a friend take care.

Second, the equipment

The camera, basically the most entry DSLR and can also be a hedge. Standard zoom lens can capture wide-angle environment, the composition can also be tightened at any time, shooting fireworks or some buildings close-up, fixed-point shooting can be a little change.

The most important tripod shooting fireworks! ! ! Sufficiently high enough to have a solid tripod is a must. To stabilize the camera work is solid, while the high from being the scene of the fence or other debris shielding of the composition. In addition, the use of cable release to be able to avoid camera shake caused by the shutter, more convenient when shooting fireworks.

Third, the shooting techniques

Fireworks photo shoot, the protagonist not only fireworks, but also the background or foreground. Therefore, balancing the exposure, is the shooting point. Another limitation is the same shutter speed, the shutter will make fireworks track too short, too long exposure time will make the screen too many fireworks, and noise elimination and may increase the time, missed the next round of shooting fireworks opportunities.

I will use when shooting black smoke card practices, something the fireworks CANON Charger will be different times overlap in multiple exposure mode on the same photo, so that the screen is more abundant. But in the digital era we have to use the software for subsequent multiple exposure, coupled with the fireworks in recent years, most are very dense, has less exposure time can make the screen filled. I generally use the ISO100, aperture 22, shutter speed is generally between 25 seconds to 30 seconds to light intensity can be balanced to take care of the problem and the trajectory of fireworks. For the foreground or background overexposed, we can use the black card to block. The easiest way is to have a hand to block the overexposed, blocking a second or a few seconds to reduce exposure.

It should be noted that if the evening wind speed is not high, the fireworks can not be paid when the smoke blew away, the early release may only clearer, after the fireworks have been issued in the smoke. So if there is no wind, then we would take hold at the initial stage of recording time.

As for white balance, the color cast of the color of fireworks is no problem, the most important is the background or foreground color, but I usually use auto white balance.but when!CANON PowerShot SD750 Charger