Photographing Fireworks

This is one of kind of a dizzying picture. And I always fail. Then I found these tips in the book Scott Kelby.

Here are the tips:

• Use a tripod, because we need a shutter speed slow enough to catch the fireworks light footprint.
• Use a cable release, because we need to see movement of fireworks before exploding. It would be difficult if we peek through the view finder.
• The selection of the lens, if you want to focus on fireworks, use a zoom lens (ideally 200mm or more). If you want to get the background as well, use a wide lens.
• Use the manual mode. Simply set the shutter speed to 4 seconds  and aperture at f/11. Do the first trial, see the results, if the excess of light, increase the shutter speed to 3 seconds, then check back the results.

Tip if your camera has a bulb mode (mode in which the shutter will stay open as long as you press the shutter release button). Hold down the shutter release button when the fireworks exploded, and then release when the light began to fade tracks.

Have a nice photo hunting.