Shooting Fireworks

[bully]

A mate of mine is a Fireworks tech.

He has invited me to take shots of his next event, from the centre of operations so to speak. I have never been great at night/low light stuff and not really got a clue what setup I should be running.

Any tips? I only have an old canon SLR with kits lens, 70-300 sigma and a nifty fifty. I have a tripod but its in storage, I suppose I should get it out for this then?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

If you're really close, lense: wide as hell, remote, tripod, bulb mode, F11, ISO1-400 (see how you get on). Failing the remote, 20-30 seconds shutter, F8-11 (again see how you get on) or tighter if they're not too crisp.

Check Flickr for photos, cheat by looking at the exif and it gives you a starting position

 

[Scott™]

Well said mate.

 

[bully]

Cheers for the advice, will give it a go.

I have a remote so I just leave it for 20-30 seconds and then close the shutter?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

If you've got a remote, leave it open for a few minutes !

Or get StarStax and stack 20-30 second images to save light pollution ruining the shot.