ံHow to take Fireworks Pictures

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ကိုလူသစ္နဲ႔ေတြေတာ႔ သူက ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ကို ဟေကာင္မင္းဟာေတြက သိပ္ႏုေနတယ္ ။ ပံုအေၾကာင္းဆိုလဲပံုအေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အပံျဖစ္တာေလးေတြလဲေရးဦးလို႔ေျပာလာပါတယ္။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ကလဲ ေလ႔လာဆဲအဆင္ျဖစ္ေလေတာ႔ အဲ႔လိုမ်ိဳးေတြမေရးရဲဘူး အကိုရယ္လို႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေျပာေတာ႔ ဘာျဖစ္လဲ သိသေလာက္ေရးေပါ႔တဲ႔။ သည္လိုနဲ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္နဲ႔သူနဲ႔ မီးပန္းေတြ ကိုဘယ္လိုရိုက္မလဲဆိုတဲ႔အေၾကာင္းေျပာျဖစ္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာ တင္ျပသူ စုစည္းသူတစ္ေယာက္ အေနနဲ႔ လက္တေလာအခ်ိန္မွာလုပ္ခြင္႔ျပဳေစလိုပါတယ္။ သင္ျပသူ တစ္ေယာက္အဆင္႔ကိုမေရာက္ေသး လို႔ပါ။ ေအာက္မွာ မီးပန္းဘယ္လုိရိုက္ၾကမယ္ဆိုတာပါ ပါတယ္။ ေလ႔လာၾကည္႔ေပးပါ။

A favorite subject among amateurs is fireworks. While beautiful, they can be highly unpredictable, so again, prepare to shoot many frames with more bad pictures than good ones. The main problem is figuring out what exposure to use. If it's too long, the fireworks themselves overexpose, and if it's too short, all you get is fireworks, and no background (context). The only solution to this is shoot for the background—that is, expose as if it's a nite shot—and try to time your shutter releases so that the fireworks are either at the beginning, or the very end of the exposure. You'll have to shoot at least one picture of the scene without any fireworks, just to

20 seconds, 17mm, f2.8
(Whitefish, Montana, USA)

gauge what your base-line "nite" exposure is. Once you have that, you can time the fireworks accordingly. (That is, attempt to have the fireworks either be at the first or last 5 seconds of (say) a 30-second shot, for example.) This way, the basic scene will come out right, and the amount of light from the burst won't be over-exposed. You want at least a second of it (and up to about five seconds) to get the "motion" of the sparks, or the photo probably won't come out pleasing. Again, experiment to taste.

Clearly, it's a lottery game to determine when the operator is going to let off the next one, and it's not even worth shooting when he lets them off back to back (unless you like the abstract/artsie look). Except for those situations, I'll shoot every moment of a one-hour fireworks display and be lucky if I come up with five good shots. And if there's a strong wind—forget it. Similarly, the smoke can become a visual eyesore if there isn't enough circulation to cycle it out during the performance.

I always try to compose fireworks to have some sort of foreground (the people watching them, nearby buildings or landscape). As you know, fireworks involve bursts, flashes, and streaks, which are all over the map for making good exposures. Getting an "even" look involves timing. And that is governed by your noticing how the fireworks are spaced apart from one another.

Source: Dan Heller Photography