Fireworks can be described as more difficult to shoot subjects in a class, first it is dynamic, which requires us to take into account the exposure time and the second will affect the surrounding environment, the observability of the photo, there are also such factors as weather the effect of the shooting.
With the general night shooting of fireworks is very difficult to photograph satisfactorily, and needs to take into account the height, size, speed settings, aperture, shutter speed and so on, if the lack of experience, all good grasp. Comprehensive test of the photographer’s technology, opportunities to see nature and composition. Because fireworks are dynamic and irregular, and give a simple example: a site launched with two of the same species of fireworks will not bloom at the same height and position, even not the same size, there is randomness. Beautiful fireworks fleeting, when you rush, when the fireworks have disappeared in the night sky brightness under a different shape and duration of the fireworks turn to the. You never know how the next kind of fireworks.
If you have some skills in making fireworks, it touches help to reduce the waste film shooting rate.
First, we must clearly understand that the shutter the camera will record the time at the track all the lighting, and set in a photograph, while the shooting range in the strength of the various positions of different intensity of light throughout the contrast for photo appear bright or dim, and our eyes see is not the same. The principle of photographic experience in general people will know. Then we can learn the skills of shooting fireworks.
First, the preparatory work: tripod, cable release, black cardboard, location, wind direction and wind.
Sufficient battery power, tripod and remote shutter cable release or to bring the best, because it is low-light shooting, need a long shutter exposure time. If necessary and then put on a black cardboard, its role in the following description of the fourth point again.
Then, shoot fireworks site is selected, if the big scene to shoot the fireworks,HP Compaq NX7400 battery the best height, while nearby buildings had to play the role of the fireworks set off even more interesting, because from the simple principle of composition, there are reference more vivid contrast to the picture, if only shooting fireworks, you can not make the audience know how the fireworks, with the buildings contrast, it will become even more spectacular fireworks. When shooting landscapes to mean that we need to put some people sometimes shoot into the same. If the best qualified proposal to step on point during the day.
Also note that the weather that day, pay attention to wind direction and wind, windy weather is a good day for shooting fireworks. Air humidity and high visibility is also conducive to the shooting of fireworks. However, if the wind is not enough or no wind you will have trouble shooting it, because there will be fireworks and the release of smoke have finished, the smoke will be dispersed as soon as possible if you do not reduce or even cut off the next fireworks effect. I have encountered in Zhanjiang, a fireworks show, there was no wind, fireworks and put too close, the result can only see the foggy all the fireworks exploded the moment the bright spot, but do not see the fireworks and open process, do not that shot. So the weather event of such plans or cancel the shoot it, then it would have to shoot a few fireworks to seize the top.
Also try not to shoot at the upwind and downwind location of the fireworks, if wind-borne smoke will affect your line of sight to the wind, then the white smoke after the fireworks into the background, the bright light of fireworks.
Second, the shooting parameter settings: focus, white balance, sensitivity, shutter speed, aperture, metering techniques
Find a good location, good tripod stand, connected to the shutter release, the next parameter is the default shooting.
Let me talk about some of the more fixed parameters, the focal length manual focus mode is set to infinity; This is because you do not know the location at which the fireworks will be open, you can not know in advance the focus. White balance settings for machine-specific, because different brands and models of machines may have some differences. If a digital machine can wait for the fireworks show the process of trying to pre-model or warm fluorescent light shooting mode to try two, and then compare them more to behold your appetite Zhang is still not satisfied, then you can further fine-tuning, the general digital SLR will have white balance fine-tuning the machine functions.
Camera sensitivity (ISO) setting is not too high and too low, too high will generate noise and affect the photo quality, low shutter speed shooting the impact or lead to underexposure. In the author’s experience,Compaq tc4400 battery sensitivity is set between ISO 200 to ISO 400 would be more appropriate.
Exposure of the remaining portfolio is most difficult to control: the aperture and shutter settings. We seize the most important point: that the planning of the fireworks display with a certain regularity, not all of a sudden blossom, while a rise to explosions of fireworks from time to disappear usually takes five to six seconds, and the most beautiful time should be 2,3 seconds before the time. Therefore, we control the shutter time like this time, of course, the fireworks have different different exceptions, short observation is important, if we want to take a full fireworks, but can not let the fireworks of the next screen, then To open the shutter when the fireworks up the next fireworks fireworks occurs even before it disappeared in the closed shutter.
So how to set the exposure combination of it? This describes a technique for the novice, before the fireworks display began on the surrounding environment with the camera metering, if there is a bright neon lights as a reference better, shooting mode, first hit the shutter priority mode “S”, the shutter transferred to 2 to 3 seconds, then you get the aperture value, such as F8, but this is not shooting fireworks aperture used, since the brightness of the fireworks when the outbreak of the environment you would surely be high,Toshiba PA3420U-1BRS replacement battery
so good, we look for imaginary the brightness of the fireworks in the aperture on the further increase to transferred to F11. Well, experience tells us that if the smaller the aperture value, then the requirements of the shutter time will be smaller, meaning that the shutter with adjustable rate will be. But if you have neon lights from the buildings close to the location, then the fireworks will be relatively dark sky, then you need to adjust the aperture a little bit, there is no need to be too much, because then the performance might not be the object of fireworks.
Well, then we can hit the manual shooting mode “M”, set above the aperture F11, shutter doors open to the B (if B does not have the door to the longest exposure time used in that file) and wait fireworks appear. When taken to the first films, if not satisfied, you can immediately adjust the aperture value.