 Vadim Boriskevich |
Fireworks, Backlighting, Sharpness Hi everyone, My arsenal includes a Nikon D80, Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 D AF, Quantaray 55-200 mm F4-5.6, Nikon SB-600. I have three questions: 1. How do I shoot a fireworks so that the image comes out perfectly? 2. How do I shoot a backlit subject to get a good and correct exposure? What are the settings and flash exposure? 3. How do I get a sharp picture, when shooting a group of people (4-8), so that everyone is sharp in the picture? Thank you.
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Jon Close |
1. No flash, shoot in Manual exposure so that the camera isn't setting an extra-long shutter speed. ISO 100 or 200, and set aperture for f/8 or f/11. Maybe set focus manually since AF may fail in the darkness. A shutter speed of about 1/60 will give a good freeze of the individual sparks, but longer shutter speeds, even bulb (use a tripod and remote release) are better to get the streaking on the way up and blossoming of the firework. 2. Spot meter on the subject so that the meter ignores the bright background. Or use the flash - balanced fill flash is automatic for the D80 with the SB-600 set for i-TTL BL 3. There can only be a single focus distance, people nearer or farther will be progressively less in focus. So set f/8 to get enough depth of field (Av or M mode, matrix metering).
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