Encouraged by my pictures last year with my analog camera I gave Fireworks photograpy a shot this year. Now the fireworks display itself wasn't very spectacular or long lasting :( and the difference between the small bursts and large bursts was frustrating because if you had a nice zoom zetting voor the small ones, the big ones got cut off. If you set for the big ones, the small ones are really too small on your picture do do any real good.

Anyhow, I managed to get these and thought I'd share some.

Used my Nikon D70 and a brandspanking new tripod head (Manfrotto 141RC) which I just received that day. A remote control completed my set.

Wow....don't under estimate Yourself!First Class. And I hope You have a Receipt for the Nikon ;]

Wow ! They are excellent !

Theay are superb.You won't believe what happened to me.This week our city hosted a world contest for fireworks,and I went all the way down to get shots only to find my battery dead.Now I have two.Not sure if a Nikon8700 would do this good a job(or the guy holding it LOL)

How do you shoot fireworks? I tried it this year, as well as some night shots of the city and everything turned out blurry. Of course I was using a digital camera (hard to do fireworks with) which may have been half the problem. There must be some special setting I can use to get nightshots. I did turn the flash off, but it didn't help.

I shot it digitally (Nikon D70). Trick is high F number, a tripod and time. The shots you see above are shot at F18. I set the camera to manual focus, autofocus just won't work. Then uses the remote control to open and close the shutter at will (shutter speed set to 'bulb'). These shots have an exposure time of somewhere 5-11 seconds. These exposure times give you the streaks and flowers. Then all it takes is a bit of feeling and luck. Just watch the streamers go up and open it up right before the blast, keeping it open for as long as you want (a few bursts).

I guess the trick is a better camera. My camera doesn't have a manual focus (how many times have I wished for that?) nor can I set the F stop. I'm not sure if it even has an option for the remote. I do have a tripod however! ;) I'm a complete novice at photography, I just enjoy good photos.

My fiancee and I were following her parents through Harrisburg, PA on the 4th and we could see the fireworks from the highway, so she grabbed my camera and tried to take several photos. The first one she took she never turned the flash off (not fun while you're driving). Her parents saw the flash and pulled off the road to let us shoot. She took several photos but because of the camera's delay before it actually shoots the image we had a lot of empty sky or smoke trails. Later on we tried to take some photos of the capitol building in Harrisburg, but they were coming out really blurred. Can I put a new camera on my public wishlist?

She put the images on the web for her HTML programming class, and I think they are still there. She was proud of them, and I still don't know why. Don't tell her I put this link here.

http://www.geocities.com/airlynx/seytia/pa.html - Click on the Harrisburg link

One possibility is if your camera has a landscape option (usually looks like a mountainrange) to set it to that. Mount it on a tripod or place it on a sturdy underground. A beanbag (or bag filled with rice) is a cheap viable solution. That's what I can think of to do with a cam like that :)

This was great expecially the second, second to last, and third to last. Top knotch!!! Thanks for posting them.