Last night was the opening of the Skerries Soundwaves festival. A local event celebrating arts and culture, click here for a brochure.. There was a fireworks display down the harbour to celebrate the opening. I wanted to get a nice shot of the fireworks from a distance. I have tried to photograph fireworks once before and have learned from my mistakes.- You don't want a long shutter speed, this results in the smoke picking up a lot of the ambient light and the light just bounces all over it and you get colour casts in the smoke.
- If you can get up wind the smoke won't get to you and your camera can actually see the fireworks. I couldn't do this last night as I wanted to showcase Skerries and need to see the harbour.
- Set your exposure before the fireworks start and expose for the lights.
- Use an aperture like F2.8 - F5.6 this is turn the lights to stars if you use F11 there will be a glow around them.
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