Fireworks settings for 4th of july?

[photography By Evangelos]

I was wondering if any one had any help on shooting fire works for the 4th of july? I have 2 10D's and have never in my life tyed to shoot fireworks. It seem to me I will be useing the camera in Al-Servo mode and useing my 70-200 F2.8 L and maby my 2X converter and a high ISO around 800 or 1600. Or I can use my 85 F1.8. My 300 MM F2.8 L is in the shop for repair it would have been the best choice. Any help on settings will help out alot thanks.

[boyhowdy]

go to
http://www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaticView?tmreturn=true&processRequest=10002&cmd=StaticView&catalogId=10001&staticPage=%2Fetc%2Fcontent%2Frcarticles%2Ffirewor ks_tips.html&langId=-1&location=NLR06C&capture=TRUE&storeId=10001

This tells you everything you need to know!!!

good luck!!!

[photography By Evangelos]

Thanks for the info. I am re-thinking the ISO and F-STOP
and am planing to lock up the cameras miror to stop the slap and avoid any extra movement. I am thinking ISO 200 to 400 at F 8.0 to F16 with one to two sec Exp. By the way 16-35 L is way to wide of a choice for fire works I think.

[boyhowdy]

I used my 24-85mm telephoto and most shots were shot between 60 and 85mm. I did use mirror lockup and even the technique where you put something over the lens between bursts and it worked out pretty good. The link to the shots I got last night is:

http://www.krcenterprises.com/webalbum/4thofjuly2003

I shot between 1 and 2 seconds but stopped up higher since there wasn't a lot of DOF to worry about as far away as I was. I shot from ISO 100 to ISO 200. It seemed that ISO 100 took the best shots for me. At ISO 200, holding the shutter open for 2 seconds caused blur and was harder to do the black hat routine or whatever you call it when you block the shutter.

How did your pics come out PBE?