Quote Originally Posted by 4 Dog Mother View Post
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.

Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
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

Quote Originally Posted by Maya & Inka's mommy View Post
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.