I was lucky enough to be panning when the firework went off and capture this beautiful red explosion. Even managed to get the puff of smoke on the ground. Lucky shot, in all honesty.
Photographing fireworks is a challenge. Possibly better equipment might help, but night photography is a little bit specialist anyway, in my experience. It’s all to do with the light and at night there isn’t much, so that means longer exposure times and holding the camera more still. Next time I’m near fireworks I will try a video, as I think this might work better.
From memory this is 3 or 4 portrait shots stitched together.
Photos (c) Don Charisma, taken in Thailand, Nov-2013
Don Charisma 
That’s a pretty good capture for your phone. You should be proud of that. 🙂
Thanks Suz, I am, I like it … If I had a Canon or Nikon 50 megapixel DSLR with a bunch of lenses then I could do way better, but chances are I couldn’t be bothered with all the fiddling, reading manuals, setting up and carting the damn thing around … so I keep my £5000 and spend a bit on a new iPhone or Nokia or Samsung phone when time is right …
I have a Canon with other lenses but I still can’t take good firework photos. Probably because I struggle to understand the whole aperture vs shutter speed thing. And I couldn’t be bother lugging a tripod for those type of shots.
I think some research into point and shoot cameras would probably yield a results. Reason I say this is that I met people in nightclubs who used to take very good photos on relatively cheap cameras … But I’m skint now so even relatively cheap camera isn’t on the shopping list !
Thanks for the support!
You are welcome 🙂
We had two nights of fireworks right in front of our apartment courtesy of the Merit Hotel near us and right on the beach. I just snapped away with my Lumix camera, got a night setting, and got great pics which I use in creating digital surreal art. Got a great pic of our four dogs huddled around my husband looking at the fireworks with their jaws dropping, like the front row in a cinema!
Sounds awesome, I will probably get a better camera at some point, but have to be very careful for money at the moment, so just paying for “essentials” … The iphone night shots often come out grainy and the colours are often aweful, positive I’m getting lots of experience correcting them in PS !
When will you post the firework pics ?
You did it again – amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Irene
Thanks 🙂
That’s really amazing! Can even see the path line from the smoke to the bloom. And the red light reflected on the sand is beautiful.
Lucky shot, or at least that’s my excuse … can’t remember if I planned for it, but pleased with the result 🙂