Fireworks
Welcome back to the Photobook Solutions blog. Hope everyone had a great Independence Day. My favorite part is taking photos of the fireworks. I have quite a few to share over the next few days. I found a good spot to shoot this year at Houston’s Freedom Over Texas. I had my tripod set up with my camera on manual. After a few fireworks went off, I found that the best orientation was portrait instead of landscape. I used some trial and error and took many shots to get an idea of when to open the shutter and when to close it on the bulb setting. I found that with white colored fireworks, shorter shutter speeds were necessary to keep the shot from being too bright. Colored fireworks could have a longer shutter speed. Also, I decided on an aperture of f/16 to maximize the blackness of the sky. Camera specs: Nikon D300 with 18-200mm lens at 40mm, 1.3 seconds at f/16, ISO 200.
