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THREE days ago, my new laptop had arrive to my door step. It's pretty good looking, but not as smooth as my old one. I was quite surprise that it didn't took 4 weeks as it was stated on the website. My father bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 for my 18th birthday present, I was supposedly to get a brand new Canon EF 24-105 f/4 USM L lens! But because I made my mistake, I lost it. Of course, I get to customize the machine myself.
Anyway, I drove down to Putrajaya again yesterday, the highways were pack and some parts took me 20 minutes to get out of that area. Parking, was hell in a hand basket, but I got a pretty spot that I could leave without getting stuck in the jam. But you know what? It was all worth it, the fireworks presented by team Japan during Merdeka (Independence) eve was absolutely stunning. I never seen anything quite like it, I mean, I never seen fireworks so big and massive and powerful filled with energy. If anyone who lives in Malaysia didn't get to go there, or wasn't interested, then I have to say that you had lost a very great opportunity to witness a miracle. Some fireworks reminded me of the atomic bomb during World War II, especially that last rocket explosion. The Japanese sure have their own very original style.
This is about the 3rd time in my photographic life taking fireworks, and every time gets better and better. On the 2cd of September, there will be another firework competition on the same place by team Canada, and it's the finals!!! It must be even better then team Japan (I hope)! And i'm going back there again.
*My apologies for the ugly watermark
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Actually capturing fireworks technique is very similar to that used for capturing traffic trails. First you will need to mount your camera on your tripod and point towards the area of the sky where the fireworks will be exploding. If you are far away, make sure you get a lens that has a coverage around 18-70mm.
Once you had found the desire composition you want to stick to. Set up the right focus and make sure it is in Manual Focus, if you can't get the right focus, point towards the bright surfaces such as street lights, building lights where the firework rockets takes place. If you still can't manage to get the exact or you are unsure, then use Auto Focus and start off by focusing on the first few fireworks; then switch to MF.
Use the lowest ISO if possible, around ISO100, or 50. There are two way of capturing fireworks, one is a few seconds which only records a few fireworks, around 3-6 secs which sometimes isn't bright enough. Another is that, once the rockets start going, lock the camera's shutter open on bulb (B) with a cab;e release so the explosions are recorded as colourful streaks. One or two rockets will not provide enough colour, so between explosions cover your lens with a piece of black card, then uncover it when the next rockets are launched. By repeating this you can capture half a dozen or more explosions.
Stick your aperture around f/8-f/16. Make sure you switch off the noise reduction. This is very important because if you shoot for 30 secs, it will take another 30 secs to process your image and shooting will not be possible during the process. In this case, you will waste many great opportunities. Observe and make sure you don't get greedy fitting everything into one frame as over exposure may occur.
super photos. great job!