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Shooting fireworks is not easy. The sudden appearances make them hard to be shot. I shot them once on a distance with telelens and tripod, by watching where one came after another, directing my cam to that point and expose 10 seconds to 1 minute. When you're closer and you can see one starting to light some nice piece of firework you can do the same without telelens. Long exposure times have the advantage of beautiful trails, a short exposure time will just capture the one single moment. When it's windy there will be another effect because the trails tend to be blurred into the direction of the wind. Quite a different effect and as we say ihere in the Netherlands, change of food stimulates to eat!