Fireworks photo and a question about it

[cA70]

Heres a sample from the weekend of fireworks

http://a70.fotopic.net/photo.php?id=1112237

This is off 1 bridge, and about 3 other different buildings on both sides of the river.

My question is what's a good 'fireworks' setting for the A70?

I was always in ISO 50, i do know it took longer to get the shot but from what i read on here the quality is so much better, could i of droped it to 100 and not noticed?

Whats a good Ap and Shutter combination?

Alot of the shots didn't turn out so well, i think i left the shutter open for a bit to long.

[phidong]

If you increase the ISO you can decrease the shutter speed. The sample picture looks a little overexposed anyway, i think you should've used a faster shutter speed.. or closed the AP up a little (higher ap number)

[cA70]

Doesn't ISO 50 give the best quality image? Ive taken a photo at night using 400 and it was really blotty.

Would 100 or 200 be better for fire works to be able to print?

[phidong]

Yeah ISO 50 will give you the best quality image, using anything higher will be noisier. I'd probably use ISO 50 w/ a faster shutter speed.

[stduc]

I just took 271 firework shots at a big display in Blackheath this weekend. I got about 3 I'd call brilliant, about 20 more than okay, about 30 duff ones and the remainder acceptable. Using an A80, I set it to P mode, ISO 100, Auto White Balance, Centre Weighted Average. I turned off AiAf, Focus assist and flash. I set the manual focus to infinity. I set the zoom 1 click in. I selected multishot mode H. I wish I could have turned the display off but couldn't due to using manual focus. I used the viewfinder to compose all the shots - not that much composition was possible!
At the same time my better half, using her purloined A70 (see other posts!) took as many 640*480 movies as she could fit on her 512 (*actually 490) card.
All in all it worked rather well, but looking at the exif data I think another time I'll set the camera to 1/4 sec at f 4 as most of the shots were taken between 1 and 1/10 sec and whilst none were under exposed some were well over exposed. Mainly those at the t sec mark.

[cA70]

Do you post any of these on galleries?

[Ah Pook]

Here are a couple of fireworks pics from this year, with an A70. Shutter Speed was the only variable (in these pics). Set the camera on a tripod and used the display to follow the firework trail. The only modification to the pic is cropping.

Shooting mode-Manual
Aperture Value-8.0
No photo effects
Metering Mode-Evaluative
ISO Speed-200
White Balance-Auto
AF Mode-Single AF

TAKE TWO. Crossing fingers.

http://www.PictureTrail.com/ahpook

http://pic8.picturetrail.com:80/VOL259/1616428/3097764/37938042.jpg

[cA70]

If you think pics are bad with yahoo, wait till you put a video up there, and as soon as you get a few downloads they stop all service to your account for a while.

Don't know if it was me but i copied the whole link and it didn't work

[Matzzzy]

Didn't work for me either...you should put the pictures in another place, that lets you link...sort of like www.fotopic.net

[stduc]

ca70 wrote:
Do you post any of these on galleries?
Unfortunately I can't at the moment.

[Matzzzy]

stduc wrote:
ca70 wrote:
Do you post any of these on galleries?
Unfortunately I can't at the moment.


That does suggest that you will in a near future...we'll wait :)

.:Matz:.

[Ah Pook]

www.picturetrail.com is good. Yahoo Photos is bad. :)

See the above post for fireworks pics.

[acurtis]

Hi everyone. New to this forum and digital photography but you have been teaching me loads. Thanks.

My fireworks efforts were using a Canon Ixus 400 taken using a small tripod, 1 to 5s exposure, focus on infinity, flash off. As it's dark and close to the ground and hard to predict where in the sky the rockets will go makes things a bit hit and miss. More fun though as don't know if you have got anything useful until you get home. High failure rate - many blank bits of sky, but the occasional gem (at least to me).

Hope the pic below shows up (two more in the same collection):

http://andrewcurtis.fpic.co.uk/photo.php?id=1681141

[acurtis]

Sorry, embedded address looks no good. Trying this:

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=1681141

[cA70]

Interesting effect with long exposure and some wind.