Wonderful capture! I tried to get some fireworks shots last night but was
quite disappointed with the results. Turned out that the telephoto wasn't a good choice because it limited my field of view and my exposure times were too short. Next time...
@redy4et Interesting you should say that. What I'd read before going was the a wide angle is best unless you're relatively far away from the fireworks launch. Last year I was in a different spot and did use my telephoto, probably around 70mm or so. But this year I was concerned about the field of vision. Then, just before they started, I was kicking myself for bringing the wrong lens -- totally lucked out that it was the right choice, though I set it up on DX field as it was a little too wide for where I was. Long story short...I think the best field is around 21 - 35mm unless pretty far away. Next year!
@redy4et I read a bunch of articles before I shot last night and the recommendations range as follows:
1. Shutter speed: 6 second to bulb. If you use bulb (that's what I did), open when the fireworks starts up and close when the trails trail off. Then look and see if it's over- or underexposed and adjust til you get what you want.
2. Aperture: 7.2 - 11.0 but I found that it was still overexposed so I went down to 16 to 22
3. ISO -- 100 to 400. I went with 100, f16 or f22, and bulb ranging from 3 - 6 seconds and 'most' shots came out.
You nailed these Taffy! Great detail in the trails. The photographer whose advice I followed this year said that using a smaller aperture creates thinner trails and larger apertures create thicker ones. I stayed small so I didn't have anything to compare to see if that is true. Fav!
@skipt07 I had some from earlier with larger aperture and they were thicker -- but also a bit blown out. I think to make that work, the ISO would need to be a little higher (I was at 100) and the shutter speed a lot shorter -- maybe just a second or two.
quite disappointed with the results. Turned out that the telephoto wasn't a good choice because it limited my field of view and my exposure times were too short. Next time...
1. Shutter speed: 6 second to bulb. If you use bulb (that's what I did), open when the fireworks starts up and close when the trails trail off. Then look and see if it's over- or underexposed and adjust til you get what you want.
2. Aperture: 7.2 - 11.0 but I found that it was still overexposed so I went down to 16 to 22
3. ISO -- 100 to 400. I went with 100, f16 or f22, and bulb ranging from 3 - 6 seconds and 'most' shots came out.