Firework Photography. How?

[jimmy83]

Bath fireworks.

 

[jimmy83]

Portsmouth fireworks

 

[jimmy83]

 

[Leslie]

Hi, I took some fireworks shots recently and am quite disappointed with them. I wonder if anyone could give me some tips to improve?

Here's one of the first test shots I took before the fireworks started. I thought this exposure would be ok when the fireworks started. (incidentally the bright 'star' to the right hand side is actually Jupiter)

[/url] fireworks_004 test shot 4 by Leslie Stoddart, on Flickr[/IMG]

Here's one of the first shots with fireworks in it.

[/url] fireworks_005 by Leslie Stoddart, on Flickr[/IMG]

I had started to adjust the exposure in these ones

[/url] fireworks_008 by Leslie Stoddart, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/url] fireworks_009 by Leslie Stoddart, on Flickr[/IMG]

I started adjusting the exposure as my lens had started to mist up with condensation (but I didn't realise this until I was packing up) and I was trying to work out what was going wrong!

There's a couple more shots in my Flickr as well.

Does anyone have any advice on what I could do differently the next time i'm shooting fireworks?

 

[jimmy83]

This might be worth a bump

 

[Daryl]

Wedding in Henley

Not a fan of long exposure fireworks... Too blurred. I like to see the sparkly bits.

 

[MWHCVT]

For those interested I've written a guide to firework photography this can be found in the tutorials section a link to the guide can be found in my signature