Learn how to photograph fireworks with Neil Creek. Part of the Night Photography Unlocked course at Udemy:
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Learn how to photograph fireworks with Neil Creek. Part of the Night Photography Unlocked course at Udemy:
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The simplist method for getting fireworks is to use Live Composite…….no guessing……..not the easiest for "mirrored" cameras……….
Are you changing SS without adjusting exposure overall? Wouldn't it get overexposed including the city going from 10s to 30s without correcting ISO or iris?
Moon is always a problem for photographers
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At 5min and 25seconds into your description moving from 100 ASA to 400ASA does not double the light….. it quadruples the light into the camera! Stay alert!
What is 4 seconds shown as or 10 seconds shown as because its not 4 or 10. It's like 1/4 and weird numbers
Woow thats what I call fireworks show, how long was the show? in my city it lasts only 5 minutes at the most
very nice tutorial! thanks a lot!
Why not use the lowest f stop? Like 1.8 or something like that
Very helpful. The on thing I didn't get is how the camera was set for 10 seconds and you didn't get allot of light trails. I would think you would have gotten light trails for every firework with the camera open that long
LENS DIFFRACTION is such a problem as apertures approach f/22, I would never shoot fireworks at this aperture. I shot the fireworks at the below link using a Nikon D810 @ ISO 64 and Nikkor 16-35mm lens at mid-range apertures (for increased sharpness) and shorter exposures in "bulb" mode.
https://rstesch.smugmug.com/Events/4th-of-July/
I mean, the majority of these tips were practical enough, but there is so much more to discuss with fireworks that wasn't covered in this video it's difficult to call this "advanced". It was more of a beginner guide to fireworks. 10 seconds is a horribly long time to have your shutter open, the fireworks mash together and you lose the details of the individual shots. Also, keep the white balance on auto and adjust in post – just shoot raw – it will save time. And pick out some compositions ahead of time, most of these were less than stellar and had so many distractions. Finally, an example of an advanced tip would be to talk about back button focusing. With it, you can leave everything on autofocus but only refocus when you recompose and the rest of the time while shooting you are refocusing because it's not linked to your shutter. If you want a busy sky, take tons of short bursts in bulb mode with your tripod really locked down, a solid exposure of the skyline or whatever your background is, and then composite several together so you can find some that don't collide too much and wash out the image.
All prime lens.
Blown…. just the way I like to do it.
The shot at 11:11 was fucking FLAMES
Clean and to the point, thank you!
Thanks for a good video of shooting fireworks and showing what it looks like in the settings.
Great video. Thanks. I would be tempted to use two cameras, one with a wide angle lens. And I wonder what you did in post processing?Any composites?
I'm going to the same spot but for the winter fireworks 🎆
You mad out at ISO100 and f22 how did you manage overexposure at 30-seconds
His photos are crap compared to the video! Lol.
try to use on bulb setting , way easier and quality photo
Is it Minatomirai, Tokyo, Japan?
All great tips. It seems that f22, ISO 100 is a good starting point for a lot of time exposure work. I especially like the fact that you can wear shorts on New Year's Eve! That won't work in New York! 😉
What good video!
i am more interested in the camera setting u used to shoot this whole video !
Excellent video and very informative, thanks!
Nice and clear tutorial in the field. Thanks.
Why if your used Shutter Speed 10", there's no different with Shutter Speed 30" ? The Brightness is same ?
Thanks for the tutorial !
Cant help it but every time he says “daylight” I hear “die a lot” 😂
I hate when i watch a photography review telling me one thing, and then another telling me to do the exact opposite
Neil, Many thanks for this tutorial, out of all the ones (Fireworks) I have watched on YouTube, yours is the one that kept my interest and explained things in an easy to understand way. Will check your Udemy courses out. All the best from Liverpool, UK.
lol my lens only goes to f8.0
Hi, I'm not sure if you are still monitoring this channel. Firstly thank you for the video … it gave me some great ideas that I tried out a few days ago. What I was curious about, where were you located in Docklands?
framing seems awful, main fireworks are off to left. any reason for that
you should always underexpose to avoid loosing detail. post processing will make almost 100% keepers
Amazing work, Neil – Great dialogue and well explained. Would like to know Camera you are using. Would bulb work. Thanks lots.