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- Know the place:<\/strong> You may use maps or scout the location, but be prepared and since there will be a lot of people and moving around is less of an option when the show starts, be sure to know exactly where you want to be (and be there beforehand).<\/li>\n
- No flash:<\/strong> It won’t help for the fireworks, it could only light up some foreground elements in front of the show (and light balance will be difficult to obtain). It’s better\/easier to use the shadow of these foreground objects, if it is easily recognizable.<\/li>\n
- Use a tripod:<\/strong> It’s night time, there is light, but not enough. Apertures will be wide and speed will be low. Get a heavy, sturdy one (Avoid being bumped into by people and limit exposure to the wind: All these make blurry photos).<\/li>\n
- No autofocus: <\/strong>You need to focus at the infinity and then go back to manual.<\/li>\n
- Use long shutter speeds:<\/strong> The longer speeds will allow filling the pictures with more light (But don’t over do it; Several light flowers are good, a bunch of colored streaks is probably not right).<\/li>\n
- Experiment with apertures:<\/strong> If there is more than the fireworks to be placed in the picture (a good idea), try experimenting with the aperture to choose the best depth-of-field.<\/li>\n
- Have a flashlight:<\/strong> At night, it will be difficult to find your way around.<\/li>\n
- Have replacement parts ready:<\/strong> Batteries or Flash cards must be in an easily accessible location (without light, it’s easy to reach for your pockets, right?)<\/li>\n
- Don’t check the pictures on the LCD:<\/strong> There is no time for this, shoot, you’ll look later. (Option: Check only 1 or 2 images at the beginning, nothing after that).<\/li>\n
- Frame:<\/strong> Think and try different compositions and frames (panoramic, vertical, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Happy shooting, now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer is coming and the 4th of July celebrations (in the US, of course) are upon us. This means that we will have the opportunity to shoot fireworks, this ever-wonderful show. Usually, we will get only a few minutes to shoot and we don’t want to wait until next year for another opportunity. So, here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[417,418,196,83,458],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shoot","tag-fireworks","tag-night","tag-tip","tag-tutorial","tag-y-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- No flash:<\/strong> It won’t help for the fireworks, it could only light up some foreground elements in front of the show (and light balance will be difficult to obtain). It’s better\/easier to use the shadow of these foreground objects, if it is easily recognizable.<\/li>\n