Diwali season is on. Time to shoot some amazing fireworks. Have you ever tried earlier?

I use my gears Nikon D750 with 24-120mm lens to capture fireworks. I used the kit to shoot fireworks last year. One of my few clicks are attached with my post. Few things that are must for shooting fireworks:

• Any camera which can exposure for couple of seconds, say 1 sec or more.
• Having a tripod is beneficial to keep the camera sterdy and align along any direction.
• Having a wired or wireless shutter release will allow you to trigger the camera without disturbing camera.
• Right location. It's utmost important factor. You must know where are you going to get fireworks. I prefer to shoot at my terrace. I can point the camera in any direction.

One more point which may seam difficult for most of us but very important is the patience. If you are trying fireworks for first time, it will be little challenging for you so all you need to do it to keep patience while clicking.

Coming to settings, there are no ultimate settings but keeping camera exposed enough in time will allow you to shoot fireworks so shutter speed must be 2 sec or more. If you are not really sure about how long should you keep the camera open, you can keep 5 sec or more depending on amblient lights around. If amblient light is low, you can keep much lower shutter speed. It will allow you to capture any moment in the sky.

Aperture would be good if I keep 5.6 or higher in number. If you still believe that you are getting very low intensity of fireworks, open the aperture. Reducing shutter speed here will not help. Keeping lower shutter speed will bring light trails in the image. So if you are getting good trails but low light intensity, need to widen the aperture.

Similarly if you are getting light intensity too high, need to reduce the aperture. It will cut down the extra light. 

Let me know if you have any points to mention to discuss. Do post your questions in follow up posts.

There are basically three fundamentals that you should follow for photography. Those are

1. Shutter Speed
2. Aperture
3. ISO / Film Speed

You can find a nice article on this fundamentals over here

But before that, you need to practice on Program Auto or Auto Mode (Creative Mode on Canon) for clicking in perfect composition. When I bought my camera, the sales guy suggested me to start with the only composition, rest you can master later. 

Here are some photo composition tips by Steve McCurry - The famous photographer

Dramatic style photoshoot: In a dramatic photography session, everything that gets covered is all about the lighting and post-production activities. Each and every thing in this type of photoshoot discusses the technical abilities and the knowledge of the photographer. The contrast is quite high, with a lot of blacks, and normally, there is an apparent center on the subject. These pictures are quite bold, strong and not for everyone. 

Documentary-style photoshoot: It is a known fact that photos that have been clicked in candid and documentary-style make out the most heartfelt and memorable images, because of which various photographers have adopted a photojournalistic style. Moreover, the Top International Wedding Photographers treat the wedding day almost like a feature or news story so they allow the moments to unfold naturally and then click them in a miniature of seconds.

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there are 2 ways of achieving focus

Using Autofocus

turn on the auto focus mode on your lens->then point at your subject->click shutter release button half way to lock the subject in focus->adjust your frame if needed WHILE HOLDING THE SHUTTER RELEASE BUTTON->press the shutter release button to take your photo with subject in focus

Using manual focus

turn on your manual focus on the lens->point at your subject->use the focusing ring to adjust focus according to your eye->press shutter release button to click the photo

The only thing you need to do so is a DSLR.

It also depends on  DSLR as to which type of AF technology  it uses or what are the diffrent types of focus points that the camera has.

And just automatically or manually focus your subject and you are ready to go.

By this you should be ok to focus on.

I usually format my cards before every shoot. Make sure you have at least two copies of the same saved as back up. Name a folder in camera itself and then start shooting. 

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