For those of you who will be photographing fireworks tonight to celebrate America's 241st birthday, this is what I suggest. Use a tripod, make your settings 1.6 seconds, f/14, 100 ISO. Turn the autofocus off or you won't get anything in focus. Focal manually at some distant street lamp or car headlight, and then don't change the focus. Use a medium telephoto lens in the 70-200mm range. The white balance doesn't really matter: daylight or auto white balance are fine. These camera settings will give you sharply defined bursts, good exposure, and good color. In addition to wanting frame-filling shots, go for individual bursts so you can use them in composites at some point in the future as I did with this shot of Philadelphia.
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Jul 7, 2017, 11:36:23 AM
Lorraine Piskin - Wish I read this before but got it after the 4th, or maybe got it in time before the 4th, but didn't read my emails ...
Anyway, I used a 24-105, put on bulb and counted 5 seconds ... Didn't focus on anything in particular. First time I shot fireworks in Long Island. I didn't look at pictures yet.