Shooting fireworks is easy and you can nice pictures, but you have to know some simple basics rules. As fireworks don’t happen to often, here some 4 easy and quick steps so you don’t miss any chance:

1. Location: keep the distance! Don’t get to close, get some distance between you and the place where the fireworks show is. Try to get a nice panoramic view. If you stay right under the fireworks it will be hard to get a good picture as the firewoks came from 2,3 places or more, some of them go high, others a little lower.
2. Use a tripod.
3. Exposure time: I say from 3,4 seconds to 10 seconds or even more. If your camera doesn’t allow you to change the exposure time or shutter speed, use onde of the modes available : fireworks or nightshot.
4. Set a lower ISO like 50 or 100 or else you cand get a disturbing noise.

There could be more things to say but keep in mind this 4 steps and you will not return dissapointed from your fireworks shooting.

You have bellow two pictures to help you understand better those 4 steps:

1. Good location, tripod-yes, exposure time:6 seconds:

2. Bad location, no tripod, exposure time 2 seconds, let’s say time is ok( in fact it was camera’s fireworks mode):

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