Did anyone take pictures of fireworks this weekend??

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

WOW !!! What a spectacular picture!!! It isn't easy to take a picture of fireworks!!

[Catlady711]

I am at work now but i will try to post some of mine later this evening.

I look forward to seeing your shots posted. I was hoping to have a thread going where everyone could share their shots. Not all fireworks shows are the same and I enjoy seeing some of the different bursts different shows put on.

I am always too busy going "Wow!" to remember to snap the photo. Sigh.

I have the exact opposite problem. I'm always too busy shooting them to get to actually watch them much until I get the pix home. lol

It isn't easy to take a picture of fireworks!!

It's not too hard really, I just taught my hubby and he shot fireworks for the first time this weekend and his were as good as mine, just a bit of different timing on the bursts.

A sturdy tripod is a MUST for shooting fireworks. And about any camera that will do manual settings and a self timer can take the pix whether film or digital. A few years ago I shot fireworks with a point & shoot digital Canon A40.

Just put the camera on the tripod, set it on manual, set the aperature on F/8 or higher, ISO on 100, 80, 50 (however low the camera can go), shutter speed at about 2-4 seconds, set your self timer (or use a shutter release) and fire away. Probably the hardest part is focusing. On the point and shoots I would wait until one burst went up and focus on that, lock focus and keep shooting, on the DSLR/SLR cameras set the lens to infinity (or in my case eyeball the focus, I don't have an infinity setting on my lenses cuz they're cheap).

Thank you everyone for the compliments. I look forward to seeing some of your shots when I get online later tonight.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

We only set off a few this year. Nathan, the dogs, and I watched from the house so we wouldn't get eaten alive by mosquitos. This is the only picture I got of fireworks-

[Taz_Zoee]

I forgot to take my camera with me. I took a couple with my cell phone but they were horrible. My camera is not very good either. But I'd love to get some pix of the fireworks up in Tahoe. They have hearts and smiley faces and boxes and stuff. It's really neat. We will be up there for Labor Day this year and they do fireworks that weekend too.

That is an awesome picture!!

[Catlady711]

That is adorable!

[Jessika]

I did but since we went to the riverfront there's someone's head in nearly every picture LOL

I got some decent ones, too, except for the head! :P

Not as nice as yours, however

[JALB]

Here are some of mine:

[Catlady711]

Here are some of mine:

Nice job! Thank you for sharing



Keep the pix coming everyone.

[Catlady711]

[QUOTE=Jessika;2033564]I did but since we went to the riverfront there's someone's head in nearly every picture LOL

I got some decent ones, too, except for the head! :P [QUOTE]

I went to the show 1 hour early just so I could park my butt right up against the 'do not cross' line for viewing. I did also go to a second show on Sat. night but I didn't have front row seating so I too have lots of heads in some of the shots of the fireworks that didn't go as high.

[Jessika]

I did but since we went to the riverfront there's someone's head in nearly every picture LOL

I got some decent ones, too, except for the head! :P

I went to the show 1 hour early just so I could park my butt right up against the 'do not cross' line for viewing. I did also go to a second show on Sat. night but I didn't have front row seating so I too have lots of heads in some of the shots of the fireworks that didn't go as high.

We got there five hours early and people were already claiming all the good spots! We didn't have a BAD spot, but it was very, very crowded.

Plus, forgot to mention, we were under a tree, so the low fireworks have a head in them, and the higher one have tree branches and leaves haha