Kindly share your fireworks camera setting

[FatCow]

Oh, also I'm not thinking about using ISO400 at all. The max will be ISO 100 for fireworks, and actually about ISO200 for outdoor setting. Hopefully I can get something like f/16 for really deep DOF.

 

[206bones]

I am also hoping to get a NICE fireworks / castle photo this trip [next week ]. I am taking a small tripod that extends about 1 foot. Do they let you right up to the wall in front of the castle? I was hoping to set the tripod on that. If not, I will need to seek out a garbage can & not let anyone stand in front of me!!!

 

[FatCow]

If you're that close to the castle, I don't think you can get the 'full-picture' of the fireworks.

I watched Wishes 3 times. The best place, IMHO, is behind the middle hub facing the castle (you're standing closer to Main Street USA rather than the castle).

 

[Shutterbug]

Originally posted by FatCow
Too bad the EXIF info doesn't say anything about my ISO setting other than "auto"

BTW, on your camera's fireworks setting, Tv 2 sec, f/8, but at what ISO setting?

TIA

The camera automatically sets it depending on the brightness of the fireworks

 

[Shutterbug]

Originally posted by 206bones
I am also hoping to get a NICE fireworks / castle photo this trip [next week ]. I am taking a small tripod that extends about 1 foot. Do they let you right up to the wall in front of the castle? I was hoping to set the tripod on that. If not, I will need to seek out a garbage can & not let anyone stand in front of me!!!

I've have stayed left of the circle there in front of the castle and just used the top 1/3 of the castle in the shot to avoid getting peoples heads

 

[FatCow]

Too bad I can't set my new camera ISO setting to Auto (in the programmable mode).

The most I can do I guess use Tv (shutter priority setting), setr ISO to auto, and let the camera deal with the f stop.

Oh, and my camera won't allow me to have an f stop higher than f/8.

 

[Shutterbug]

yes thats why I use my slr with slide film to photograph fireworks.
I have a lot more control over the photo.

 

[Shutterbug]

You can go to full manual mode on your camera.
It will let you set the fstop, speed and ISO

 

[FatCow]

true, but depending on the brightness of the fireworks, the picture may be under or over exposure if I set it to a set ISO

(plan was ISO 100, Shutter 1.3 sec, f/3.5, zoom: 28mm, focus: infinity, flash: off)

 

[Shutterbug]

well the fireworks should last long enough to be able to check your shots really quick and go back to the shooting mode and make adjustments

Also you mentioned focus on infinity. Will you be having the castle in the photo? I know with a regular camera if you are too close and have it set to inifinity the object will be out of focus.

 

[Shutterbug]

the one thing I keep in mind is that not all my firework photos will turn out great due to the variable of the fireworks. Unless you have a script in front of you knowing what type of firework will be shot, how high it will go and how many others will be going off it will be hard to know how to set up each shot.

I know I will shoot a whole roll of slide film and get maybe 4 or 5 shots that I think are really really good.


One other hint: keep track of where the wind is blowing from.
You do not want to be downwind of the wind or else you will have lots of smoke in your photos.

 

[grimgrinnin]

Shutter: 4 Seconds
Aperature: f9.6
ISO 100


Taken with a tripod and remote shutter release.



grim

 

[FatCow]

Hmmm, I haven't considered the castle being not far enough.

I think I will be standing (again) at the entrance to Tomorrowland or a mirror-image location of that point. Do you think it's not far enough for 'infinity' setting?

It will be around 100 feet away from the castle, I think.

 

[Ronda93]

I looked at the setting from my WISHES photos last fall. Most were f10 at 1 second. That's at 200 ISO. I've tried to shoot fireworks for years and have been surprised that the aperature needs to be small releative to how dark it seems.

10-16 has been where I end up a second to a second and a half to catch some of the trail and you're set.

 

[206bones]

The castle photo that has been on the main page of the disboards - for Halloween - any guesses on settings for this one? Needs longer shutter speed / slower shutter due to no fireworks, right?

 

[Shutterbug]

Excellent photo grimgrinnin!!!!

Was that print, slide or digital?

 

[Shutterbug]

Originally posted by 206bones
The castle photo that has been on the main page of the disboards - for Halloween - any guesses on settings for this one? Needs longer shutter speed / slower shutter due to no fireworks, right?

I would say that the apeture was probably wide open and the shutter speed was set for proper exposure

 

[maci]

Ok I am reading this and playing with my camera, trying to make sense of it all!
I SO want to get a great fireworks shot!

My camera will let me adjust all the things you have been speaking of but the aperture! SO if I change the ISO and the shutter speed, with the auto aperture setting, will that really do any good?

Also, on the focus, is the general concensus to use the infinity or auto?

My camera does have a night setting, I may just have to give up and go with that, but we have not had the best of luck with it. And I want some osborne lights pics too!!

Thanks for the VERY informative thread!!!

 

[Shutterbug]

maci

what type of camera do you have? digital, or 35mm?

It will let you adjust the shutter speed but not the aperture?
hmmm thats wierd.
My guess if it will only let you adjust the shutter speed then it will give you a smaller apeture the more you increase the shutter speed.

As far as putting the camera on in infinity it all depends on if you plan on having anything else in the shot. If its just fireworks then yes infinity works but if you want the castle and you are close then setting it to inifinity might not give you a clear focus of the castle.

 

[Minky]

Hey guys I REALLY NEED HELP!!

I know nothing about taking pictures and all the tech talk on these pages, but I just bought a Casio Exilim digital camera, and it has a bunch of different settings on it...one of them is fireworks....do you think I would be okay using that? I will also want the castle in the picture and would also like to take pictures of the MK fireworks from our balcony at the poly. Here are the settings in this mode
2"
f2.6
iso50
no flash

I have no idea what this means, HELP!
Thanks