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With the 4th of July (and Bastille Day, and a whole host of other regional  excuses to set off large explosions in the Midsummer sky) in the offing, John Watson has a short tutorial on shooting fireworks. there are thousands of tutorials on this subject out there, but he boils it down to the essentials: use a reasonably slow ISO setting (100-200); don’t forget

the tripod; exposure = length of trail; aperture = brightness of trail.

Working out the timing so that the starburst is centered wherever you’ve aimed the tripod is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Original post by Jay Savage