Shooting FIREWORKS TONIGHT

Hello everyone,
I want to shoot some fireworks tonight and just wanted to know what is the best way to shoot them. I have a tripod I will be using a canon 5d with EF 70-200 mm 2.8 L lens.


Please post any feed back if anyone has great success in shooting them before..

There are actually a ton of threads about shooting fireworks, but this one is a sticky and probably contains the most helpful information in a centralized place: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=341145

Here's another link:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-fireworks

N2bnfunn wrote in post #12703057
Hello everyone,
I want to shoot some fireworks tonight and just wanted to know what is the best way to shoot them. I have a tripod I will be using a canon 5d with EF 70-200 mm 2.8 L lens.


Please post any feed back if anyone has great success in shooting them before..

go wider. focal length, not aperture.

set up early.

N2bnfunn wrote in post #12703057
Hello everyone,
I want to shoot some fireworks tonight and just wanted to know what is the best way to shoot them. I have a tripod I will be using a canon 5d with EF 70-200 mm 2.8 L lens.


Please post any feed back if anyone has great success in shooting them before..

Well the weather was very bad last night for shooting fireworks raining and over cast but I did shoot afew

the first one was shot 13-F 2.5 seconds the second one shot 11-F 4 seconds

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I have used 12-24 at wide end to take some lovely fireworks overhead.

Here's my recipe - hope it helps

White balance set to daylight (NOT auto...)
f/8 or f/11 (depends on the camera's diffraction limit.)
100 ISO
Manual focus (Do this very carefully using magnified live view if you can.)
Noise reduction turned off
Camera on bulb
5-15 second exposures - click and wait...
Mirror locked up (but this is optional - you can probably get away without it.)

I have quite a few recent ones from Canada Day uploaded on my flickr page - these were shot from about 5km from the actual show.

for the future, get yourself a remote trigger, set the aperture to f11 and put it in bulb mode. open the shutter just before your think it will burst and keep it open to expose the whole plume. after few you will get the timing down after they are fired and will be able to get some really good shots.

I went against the conventional wisdom and shot nearly wide open at very fast shutter speeds for a different kind of effect. I like the chaotic view of the initial burst.

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TeamSpeed wrote in post #12708232
I went against the conventional wisdom and shot nearly wide open at very fast shutter speeds for a different kind of effect. I like the chaotic view of the initial burst.

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very nice, what aperture and what shutter speeds do you use?

Couple of Mine:

^^^ Wow, very nice shots! Great job on the exposures, first one is awesome.

mike_311 wrote in post #12708352
very nice, what aperture and what shutter speeds do you use?

Thank you, the exif should be intact on the image above, but here is what I show for that.

# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 1/320 second ===> 0.00313 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 35/10 ===> ƒ/3.5
# Exposure Program = manual control (1)
# ISO Speed Ratings = 12800
# Focal Length = 200/1 mm ===> 200 mm

N2bnfunn wrote in post #12707716
Well the weather was very bad last night for shooting fireworks raining and over cast but I did shoot afew
the first one was shot 13-F 2.5 seconds the second one shot 11-F 4 seconds

Were those taken with your 5D Mark III?