Throughout all history humans have been fascinated by fireworks, we all like the feeling of watching this combination of colors and explosions. This is not different for photographers, any photographer at one stage or another, dreams of shooting a great firework celebration, and who wouldn’t, so how to master fireworks photography?
This task for many of you that have not tried it might sound cumbersome and difficult to achieve. But don’t believe this myth with a few tips I will discuss in this article you will be set to go out there and start shooting fireworks with great results.
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As many of other photographers when starting trying any technique, we try to
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Let’s start by discussing one by one the basic equipment required to go out there and start shooting.
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What Lens to use?
Most of the cases over 90% of the time I would recommend going wide, use a wide angle lens anything from 14mm~28mm.
Unless you plan to shoot the firework event from a really long distance (like a mountain or hill) to get the city skyline, but this brings other difficulties and this would require better and more expensive equipment.
The main approach of this article is based on the basis of shooting fireworks events from mid to close range distance, so go wide.
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Believe me, after you are stuck in the crowd looking for a good spot you will need to anticipate how high the fireworks will go over your subject, and you will need a wide angle lens for sure.
There are many wide angle lens that offers great quality for the price and performs great for fireworks photography and also other low light conditions. The first that comes up, if you are on a budget but want to get wide angle lens here are two I have
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For example, I use a Benro Carbon Fiber tripod that also can be set up as a monopod and different positions.
If you are on a budget any tripod will be good to start shooting fireworks events, remember is most likely that you will be moving around crowds and going light is the best way to go.
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Shutter Release
For remote shutter release, as many long exposure photographers will tell you to keep in your bag a wired shutter release. And why is this? from experience many of the wireless shutter release I’ve tried they tend to fail at one moment or another. In fireworks shows is critical you get your camera ready to shoot as soon as you want.
So if you like to carry around cordless shutter release is ok but soon enough you will know the importance of taking your old fashion wired shutter release.
There are many white brands for any camera cheap shutter release you can choose from.
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