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 11/14/2004 07:48:16 AM · #1
Pittsburgh will kicking off the holiday season with its annual "light up night" on friday. One of the events is a fireworks display. Any tips on getting the best images of the fireworks with the city skyline in the backround? Ive taken numerous night skyline images but never tried combining them with fireworks.

Suggestions are greatly appreciated!
 11/14/2004 07:54:08 AM · #2
This will be quite hard, as fireworks are very brighter than the skyline. In my opinion, fireworks require around 1.5s exposure to look good. Longer exposures are leading to fireworks beeing too much "extended".
 11/14/2004 09:01:45 AM · #3
try to take the image a few seconds before a firework goes up and once it explodes only keep the shutter open about another second or so.

Its gonna be hard since the display wont last very long and you have to be very quick in changing camera settings between shots to get the right exposure

James
 11/14/2004 09:16:50 AM · #4
//www.nyip.com/tips/current/firewksintro.php
 11/14/2004 09:30:55 AM · #5
Originally posted by Gabriel:
This will be quite hard, as fireworks are very brighter than the skyline. In my opinion, fireworks require around 1.5s exposure to look good. Longer exposures are leading to fireworks beeing too much "extended".


For my (litle) experience 1.5s is to short exposure. 2 or 3 sec should be suficente to capture the whole spread.

Here are few examples:
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 11/14/2004 10:50:32 AM · #6
I've only tried this once, July 4 of 2003, with my Coolpix 4500, using the Nikon Fireworks Scene Mode. The results were pretty good. Tripod mounted, 4 second exposures:
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