Different Exposures For Fireworks Photos
When taking photos of fireworks displays it is important to set your camera to the correct exposure. Alot of the display can be lost by putting your camera on automatic.
A lot of people go to firework displays and just keep there camera setting on automatic this will not give you good results often in the dark your flash will go off and you will not be able to see anything in the image. Somne cameras even have a night mode that changes the exposure to allow for dark scenes or a party mode that will capture some movement but neither of these are particularly suitable for a fireworks display.
The problem lies with how photography works the aperture lets a certain amount of light in which imprints a shadow of the image. Obviously there is more to it than that but that covers the basics for now. You need quite a lot of light from a lot of diffections to get enough detail and contrast for the image, so for this you need a wide aperture.
You balance out the aperture size with the amount of time you let the light through, this is the time from when the shutter opens to when it closes again, the shutter speed. The longer it is open the more light their is but this will capture any movement from you or the subject causing the image to go blurry. This does make a nice effect but you would not be able to identify a fireworks display in detail.
You can set your camera on a long exposure but this will often turn out blurry this can make a nice image in some cases but will not show off the choreography and creativeness that has gone into the firework display. It is a common temptation to set your shutter speed to a very low setting and keep your shutter open too long because its dark and you need more light but ideally you need a nice clean shot. You can often capture too much of the smoke in the photograph with a long exposure.
Common sense would tell you to open the aperture quite wide for a fireworks display but the lights that fireworks give off are quite bright. Ifind it is better to set your aperture between a mid to a smaller f stop but you will have to play around to getting the right combination between aperture and shutter speed. I would recommend using a tripod!
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Published January 21, 2009 . Filed under: News
I have had some great success with a canon Ixus point and shoot camera. New digital cameras seem to have come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, however, My Eos with a shutter Bulb is still my prefferred weapon of choice when photographing fireworks!