cpurves

Thanks for the help.  It worked.  I still fall back to my film roots and don't chimp much.  

I'm  late to this discussion for this year but hopefully for next year. 

I agree with have something in the foreground.  It adds interest and shows the size of the bursts.

I took this one some years ago. I set a low tripod the include the audience and the burst of the firework.

I usually set my camera to bulb, f8 or f11, ISO 200 or 400. 

Using a remote release I activate the shutter for 1 - 6 bursts. More bursts does get busy in the photo but sometimes if there is a lot going on over a wide area more bursts are better.

It's best to try different settings and length of shutter.  F8 or 11 saturates the colors more.

We did 17 shows in 16 days for the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George B.C. 

This one was from the 100 days out show.  The shows where fired from the top of a hill in the downtown area.  Perfect venue because the show was visible from all over the main town area.  For this one I shot from the second level of the parkade next to the Civic Center Plaza.  I framed it to get the crowd and buildings at the celebration with the fireworks firing from the top of the hill 

This one is a composite of three shots.  The foreground and the small bursts in the middle are the  original shot and the two on either side where taken from the same spot but I cut them out and added them to the shot.  

Hope this helps with shooting fireworks.

Cheers

Chris

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like a great job!

I photograph a lot of dogs too, as unofficial photographer to our Lurcher racing club. However, I work at the other end of the spectrum, travelling in a 14 year old Mitsubishi Outlander and processing all my images on my faithful iPad

I hope you’ll join in with some of the mini-challenges, as Pete said, they’re good fun (and I might be able to pic up some tips!)

I'm just wrapping up my last shoots of the year so will be able to send in some stuff when I back to personal stuff. 

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.  I'll help where I can. 

I never really know what to say to introduce myself that doesn't sound like bragging or spouting off. 

I mostly read a forum for the information I see and maybe ask a technical question. 

My wife and I travel BC, Alberta and the Yukon in Canada. 

We're based in Prince George BC and photograph dog shows. 

We carry a full studio with us. 

I use alien bees strobes, Nikon d500 and d300 cameras.

I shoot tethered into the computer so we can get the photos to the viewing stations quickly so the customers and view and pick their photos.  I use a mix of Dell and Lenovo laptiops.  It's my servier and feeds photos to our up to five viewing stations.

One of the laptops is our print computer.  I pull the files off the server, process in photoshop CS5 then either print on our DNP dyesub printer or email the files to the customer.

Most weekends are three days with two shows a day but a couple are larger shows with only one show a day.

We travel in a 38ft fifth wheel and put on about 25,000 Km a year.

All in all it's a great lifestyle, very social and really satisfying.

Cheers

Chris