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Published: 2004-07-26 11:50:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 30129; Favourites: 369; Downloads: 8076
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An article from on the subject of Fireworks Photography.This is a somewhat more "advanced" tutorial (in the technical sense) that requires some knowledge of what is aperture, shutter speed and focus controls at least but it is also a fun and entertaining technique.
We recommend that you read the following articles before going for this one:
The Making of a Photograph
Understanding Depth of Field
Let us know what you think!
Pedro & Damien.
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Was having some trouble judging the correct aperture, this helps a lot, thanks!
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Great tutorial! Question: Some lens have the infinity symbol. The standard 18-55mm Nikkor lens does not. I've read the manual and didn't find any direction on how to focus to infinity. Some people say turning the focus ring all the way to the right will do it. Any suggestions?
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This is just awesome, thank you so much!
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This is a great tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Hey there
I have a favour to ask of you... I am currently doing my Year 12 HSC (Australian: Higher School Certificate, ie. Last year of high school) Information Processes and Technology major project, Which is to be a website on photography and cameras.
I saw your tutorial and was wondering if I would able to feature it on the site I make. Of course, You will be fully credited with links to your deviantart profile and deviation page.
I will also send you a link at the completion of the project if you would wish to see.
I would really appreciate if you agreed, but if you donβt, no hard feelings
Thanks!
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really useful one .... everything included 
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Thanks so much for this article.. New year is coming and I was thinking so much this lately, thanks!
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Lol, this'll come in handy. I usually slap on a high aperture like f15 or f20, set the focus to manual and put it to infinite, and then use a shutter speed of like 20 or 30 seconds.
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I didn't know to pick a low ISO. Good read. I love these articles, I always learn something!
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Some really good tips there. I'll try to remember them when I go out shooting tonight. I think I'm most worried about the aperature. I seem to have a knack for overexposing those key lights.
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Very excellent tutorial that explains many of the technical details of fireworks photography in a simple, practical manner. I'm hoping to use some of these tips at our local fireworks show tonight.
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What interests me is that the camera that did farely well is a Minolta Dimage. That is the same camera I own and I always thought it wasn't the best in the world.
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nooooooo, i wanted to see this tutorial so bad.... hopefully they put this one back up
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oh good, so i am not the only one the download did not work for.
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"File Not Found". It seems that your tutorial has been taken down.
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Wonderful Tutorial! As a practicing pyro-technician, this is going to come in most handy when I want to shoot my shows! VERY good tutorial!
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great tutuorial 
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Wonderful tutorial. My step-dad works in Fireworks (setting them off) so I get to go to a lot of shows, so this'll help
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very interesting and helpful article!!!!
I think it's one of the best so far....
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nice. my first time doing fireworks turned out well. i like the tips here and it'll help me next time.
got one up in my gallery
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Thx for writing this.
It's so easy to understand and I'm going to try this as soon as I can
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Very interesting and helpful, i'm sure to try it out.
Thank you
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it's a shame i didn't find this tutorial until today 
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thanks U very much
It's very helpful for me 
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omg this is one of the best tutorial users ever!
I brought my camera to my last fireworks show and used a very wide aperture and ISO 400, all my pictures came out noisy, bright, and washed out. This helped so much.
This 'user' (i dunno what to call it) is one of the best i've ever seen, so simple but detailed.
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You wont get any noise using ISO 100, possible not even noticable with 200. with long exposure.
[link]
10 seconds, on iso 200, @ f/8
Now with digital it may have noise, but that is with a digital camera, most likely on film, you wont get noise.
mike
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Yes, agreed with film. Some digital cameras howeveer have bad noise even at iso 100/200, especialyl at night. Thanks for the comment
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I forgot i replied to this..
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Really great tut. I took some shots just fooling around with fireworks in July, and I could have used this back then, lol. I got one interesting shot, though- [link]
Anyway, I like how informativeit was, but not complicated or hard to understand at all. Nice work.
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Great writing here, it gives a lot of info on to watch out for when photographing fireworks, and gives you a chance not to fail if you only have a chance of taking one or two shots, great job!
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wohoooo great tutorial
its really usefull for me
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nice article! it's important to know and follow the rules, but it can be just as fun to break them --> [link]
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Breaking rules can be the best thing in the world.
Especially when you do that, knowing what you are doing, and then get results like that....
Bravo!
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gr8 job guys congrats
thx for sharing
it was a truly revealing reading
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wow really helpful and now that i'm alittle more equiped with the info given..
will try it out the next time i get a chance to
thanks so much for sharing
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Excellent Article. I am sure we'll be seeing lots of Fireworks photos coming to da soon now
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I really wanted to see this tutorial, it seemed like a very good thing, seeing as how I'm in Vancouver and they have massive fireworks and I just bought a new camera. Whenever I click the download button, it shows up for a while, then it shrinks to about 1/10 its size and I just can't read it. Is there any way I can actually read it? It's really useful stuff.
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You are probably using Internet Exporer who has a bad habit of auto-resizing images.
Once the image has shrink, hold the mouse still (over it) for a few seconds and you will see an icon appear on the bottom right of the image (the icon has expanding arrows on it). Click it and the image will display correctly.
Cheers.
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yeah, that's an annoying IE feature. just hold the mouse over the picture and don't move it for a few seconds. an "expand image" icon will appear in the corner of th picture. click it to see the picture full size.
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Thank you very much. This was really really bugging me. I'll try and put my knowledge to work this Wednesday, and if the boat is still enough, I might walk away with one good picture. Thanks again
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thank you for helping, Kev!
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