Fireworks on new year's eve photography tips and Tricks

This basic equipment you should have on hand, if you are photographing fireworks:

• Camera: This needs to be manually adjustable. This is the case of virtually any SLR , or in the case of modern system cameras the case.
• Lens: fireworks, you should be using a wide angled lens to photograph. This can be, for example, the normal 18-55mm Kit lens. Even better results you may get with an ultra wide-angle lens.
• Tripod: a must-have on new year's eve is a stable tripod. Since you are using the camera for several seconds to expose to, is a fixed point of view is particularly important.
• Remote shutter release: This is not strictly required, can facilitate the work but very. For One, they generate at the Trigger of the camera, no vibration, on the Other, you can program automatic shooting.

For appealing photos, a little planning is essential. The following points you should consider in advance:

• Be familiar with the settings of your camera. If you have previously purchased new accessories such as a remote shutter release, if you have ever tried.
• Check carefully whether the camera battery charged and memory card has enough free capacity. Fireworks get you only in the distance of some months in front of the lens - even more annoying would be a reckless error.
• From you've been searching for the right place. This should be slightly increased, and a clear view offer. Also, make sure that no people are in front of your camera around can run.
• Tip: Do you also think about image design. Often it works well, if static objects are, like trees or houses - into the picture. Apply here the rule of thirds to.

At the start of the fireworks you have already taken some of the basic settings on your camera. Small adjustments you can make later. You use the fully manual mode (M).

• The focal length should be quite small to be chosen, a large enough portion of the sky cover. In other words: zoom in as far as possible from your image.
• The focus in the run-up to adjust the camera later, their Position has not changed. You focus on any Element in the distance - a tree or a building. Then, you set the focus method to Manual and prevent to focus that the camera tries each time to Trigger new one.
• The ISO-value is set as low as possible, to noise to avoid. Well ISO 100. The brightness is not enough, increase to ISO 200 or 400.
• Decisive for the final image, the exposure time is. By exposing for several seconds, hold the entire Explosion in the sky. Recommended about 4 to 8 seconds is the right value to find out and Try.
• The aperture you can now determine, in the first line according to the brightness. You do always back test shots and adjust the aperture depending on the desired exposure.
• Tip: Try to tend to your image something to hide, expose, because then the colors of the fireworks better stand out.
• You have found the right settings, you can have a series of a series of images over a longer period of time to record. From the large mass of images you are looking for simply the best shots.