How to Photograph Fireworks
Monday June 30, 2008
Fireworks photography is not as difficult as you may think. A little planning and know how will help you capture great fireworks photographs. With the 4th of July celebration being this Friday for those in the U.S., this is a great time to work on your fireworks photography. To help you capture the "perfect" fireworks photograph I have two lessons on fireworks photography. The first is a basic lesson and the second goes into more advanced issues to help you fine-tune your images. I also have a link to a great article from Sue Chastain, our Graphics Software Guide, on how to remove ugly backgrounds from your images when necissary.Fireworks Photography Lessons
We also have a fireworks thread in the forum where you can share you images with other forum readers. I will be selecting several images from that thread for inclusion in an image gallery on About Photography as well.
Happy Shooting!!!
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Comments
My first lesson about fireworks when I was a novice photographer, which is so basic the need to communicate it may have escaped the experts: disable your flash. Otherwise a myriad of summer insects will appear as white circles in each of your frames. Photoshop will only recover some.