Had a good weekend back in NJ, was great to see the crowd supporting Atlantic Highlands Fair. Got a prime spot up on the bulkhead and took a couple hundred pics of the fireworks. These are the ones I liked best. Nikon D850, on tripod, via 'bulb' release which means manually hold open the...
I dunno. Maybe if you have an interesting backdrop I'd agree on going wider. Most of ours are over ocean so it's just a big blob of black out there. And they don't turn the goddamn lights off on the docks so you have to compete with that. I have to crop it 90% of the time.
Otherwise I...
Overall I was pretty meh on the fireworks pictures I took this 4th of July, but this one reminded me of a cosmic skull. It kinda blows my mind and makes me smile!
18-4thOfJuly-5521 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr
Old hat to you guys, but an hour long discussion of best practices for fireworks shots;
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/insights/blogs/photography/how-i-got-shot-john-cornicello-shows-us-how-photograph-fireworks.html