Stunning Fireworks Photos
It is a most beautiful experience — the sounds and colors of fireworks in the silence and darkness of night. Words alone cannot describe such an experience. The sky comes alive with so many vibrant hues, starbursts, and showers of light along with ribbons of smoke, making us happy and awestruck. Photographing fireworks, however, is not an easy task.
To celebrate the beauty of fireworks, we present a showcase of beautiful fireworks photography. Each image is linked to the original photographer’s page with their profile names — so you can view more of their work or even thank them for their contribution. And finally, remember to have a camera handy this coming New Year’s Eve!
Beautiful Pictures Of Fireworks
fireworks on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Fireworks at festival in Hella
Blue Explosion on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
United Kingdom fireworks at the celebration of light
New Years Eve Sydney 2008 Fireworks
Things to keep in mind for your Fireworks photos this year
To make some truly stunning fireworks shots, you need keep a couple of things in mind. First, a normal camera can’t handle such high levels of light. Although you’re shooting at night, using your flash won’t make any difference. Also, the light produced by fireworks is more than enough to capture a decent shot. For more dramatic results, you may choose longer exposure. And to ensure a high-quality result, always be ready for initial explosions when there’s less smoke in the atmosphere.
Other things to keep in mind are to use low ISO, set focal length to infinity, use a tripod and of course use manual mode. Some cameras have “Fireworks Mode” which saves you the trouble of having to adjust a lot of different settings. Just set the camera to “Fireworks Mode” and you’re ready for action!
And, of course, Happy New Year’s Eve!
FreakSoap
December 30th, 2009 5:34 amThanks for post:)
Happy New Year:)
indigo
December 30th, 2009 5:43 amamazing fireworks and amazing photos! thanks!
Petar Acanski
December 30th, 2009 5:57 amCool photos in the right time.
santosh
December 30th, 2009 5:58 amThese are really some Boom! Boom! work
Thanks! for sharing :)
Nimit kashyap
December 30th, 2009 6:17 amamazing photographs
PhotoshopCandy
December 30th, 2009 6:18 amVery Nice, Quincy looks interesting…
George Birbilis
December 30th, 2009 6:20 amThanks for the useful tips on shooting fireworks photos
uwspstar
December 30th, 2009 7:02 amsuch beautiful photos !!!
Ian Farb
December 30th, 2009 7:19 amAmazing photos. Thanks for sharing!
ev149
December 30th, 2009 7:20 amGreat photos, thanks for the share!
David J. Nightingale
December 30th, 2009 7:23 amThere are some great shots here. Unfortunately though the one credited to tunatoss is one of my images. My original is linked below:
http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0609222342.php
Vailancio Rodrigues
December 31st, 2009 12:19 amThanks for bringing this to our notice. You have been credited for your work.
Eric D Brown
December 30th, 2009 7:49 amThese are some great shots. Thank for sharing!
BEBEN
December 30th, 2009 8:06 amhappy new year…
toettt tet tet !!!
juliette
December 30th, 2009 8:58 amI really don’t know why, but I never loved fireworks. Despite this face, some of these photos are really impressive!
howi
December 30th, 2009 9:04 amThe picture associated to “tunatoss” is stolen! The original is by David Nightingale, you can find it here:
http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0609222342.php
howi
December 31st, 2009 4:53 amThank you for setting this right!
Drew Clarke
December 30th, 2009 10:35 amNot only are the piccy’s wonderful, but the skill of those who construct the fireworks too. Knowing what to put with what to create such a magnificent spectacle – got to admire that. Bear in mind also, they’re working with explosives, not exactly a job for a smoker!
webloem
December 30th, 2009 10:44 amWhy now? I needed this a few weeks ago, when i was building a fireworks webshop. ;-)
Tony
December 30th, 2009 11:01 amMesmerizing…Love the photo Bridge to Next Island.
Pusparaj
December 30th, 2009 11:08 amNice shots! Happy New Year.
Andres Jaimes
December 30th, 2009 11:55 amThanks for these beautiful photos… I’d love to know now some tips for getting this kind of pictures…
Michele
December 30th, 2009 12:33 pmI love the 2nd pictures of Eiffel Tower and brewskizzlr’s.
monica from hola!design
December 30th, 2009 3:54 pmgreat pictures! the Eiffel Tower shots are amazing!
happy new year!
Cheryl Nye
December 30th, 2009 4:31 pmHappy New Year!
Your pictures are beautiful!
Tanner
December 30th, 2009 5:09 pmI love the bokeh one I want to do that!
sarath
December 30th, 2009 9:13 pmHappy New Year.Nice Collection, thanks for sharing.
Dibakar Jana
December 30th, 2009 10:57 pmWhere do you find these images. SM’s resource Collection team is excellent. Thanks. I like them all.
Arshad
December 31st, 2009 12:52 amAll of them are really stunning but there is one thing which Smashing Magazine had to know.
It is strictly forbidden to publish Eiffel Tower photos by night.
It is a copyrigted issue.
wdom
December 31st, 2009 8:08 ampiss off MUSA!!!
Bas Meelker Photography
December 31st, 2009 1:07 amGreat shots. Some are truly amazing. Happy New Year!
Kashif M Qasim
December 31st, 2009 7:01 amAll are good, but this is the best one!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jul85/115903293/
wdom
December 31st, 2009 8:07 amthese are not so inspirational! you can see better ones in Canada!
try giving freebies of stock photos, that can used in commercial projects!!!!
That would be better!!!
Pablo López
December 31st, 2009 10:55 amExcelents pictures and great post, happy new year for all and best regards, health and happiness.
Pierre
January 1st, 2010 3:40 pmCool! These are some of my own fireworks shots from New Year’s Eve 2009/2010:
New Year’s Eve Fireworks – a set on Flickr http://bit.ly/5t1p5I
Vlad
January 2nd, 2010 5:41 amnice photos – why didnt mine make the final cut :(
http://www.flickr.com/photos/306/340215186/
追风筝的人
January 2nd, 2010 6:50 amIt’s very nice!
Roy Lindauer
January 3rd, 2010 12:51 amAbsolutely stunning!
Alexkoh
January 3rd, 2010 2:06 amThanks for featuring my fireworks photograph!
elya
January 3rd, 2010 5:47 amvery beautiful~
Silvia
January 3rd, 2010 6:06 amStunning! It’s a refreshment to see many powerful pictures like this.. thanks
simukti
January 3rd, 2010 8:22 amamazing…..!!! \m/
Okibi
January 3rd, 2010 4:12 pmSome great shots and some that shouldn’t rate a mention. Thanks for sharing.
Sean Ravenwood
January 3rd, 2010 10:12 pmNYE in Hobart Tasmania
http://www.themercury.com.au/images/gallery/remote/2010/01/01/158055.jpg
Toby
January 4th, 2010 2:16 amA friend of mine took two great shots some days ago:
http://www.designnachmas.de/?p=790
kodegeek
January 4th, 2010 3:07 amStunning. Love these
Rene
January 4th, 2010 9:47 amHere is my best show about fireworks i really like it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renelc/3147174677/
Barbarella
January 4th, 2010 11:18 amWoah! These are amazing. And I thought mine were good!
But then, we don´t have big fireworks here in Lanzarote like they have in the big cities – London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo must be frakin spectacular!
Anyway, here are mine:
http://www.themadcatlady.com/photos/?galleria=Fireworks
Enjoy. :)
Gerry Quach
January 7th, 2010 11:12 pmFor those with compact cameras and no tripod, you can still take reasonably good looking handheld fireworks photos by changing the exposure compensation settings (EV) on your camera to -1.5 or -2.0 or somewhere thereabouts. This will darken the scene, but allow you to get a fast shutter speed at ISO200 or ISO400 so your photos won’t be blurry. Be sure to set your camera’s lens to its widest position to get the wide open aperture.
Note that you won’t be able to capture the moving “streaks” of the fireworks using this technique, but the shots still turn out nicely, they’ll just be frozen in the air.
thorkman
January 10th, 2010 5:11 amTruly wonderful pics! Happy New Years!
Some more great firework pics can be found at: http://thewatchableweb.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcoming-2010-around-world-with-bang.html
Cheers.
Venksh
January 16th, 2010 10:32 amWow awesome picx..
GeeGee
February 3rd, 2010 5:37 amThis is more like “The first 25 fireworks photos you can find while searching Flickr”. Many of those are mediocre, some are bad, some are good and very good. The essence of a good fireworks photo is not the explosion itself, but the interaction of fireworks and the surroundings. That would eliminate lots of photos from this post.
aumar
February 11th, 2010 12:23 amlooks super ;)
liam
April 11th, 2010 3:44 pmI love photos of fireworks.
I love the fact that one persons art (photographer) is not only based on their own artistic skills but also of the artistic skills of another person (fireworks operator)
Awesome
Jhon Frank
June 27th, 2010 7:47 amWow! extremely great fireworks show and also i appreciated photographers they toke really nice shots. Awesome photography
parind
July 19th, 2010 2:34 amI love all these Snaps
Fireworks photographer
September 8th, 2010 4:23 amWhaou, there are very good pictures and great diversity here!
Here are mine: http://www.cyrilalmeras.com/photos/nuit/feu-d-artifice/
fireworks
July 4th, 2011 9:36 amthese pictures are really really awesome i would love to see them in person now that would be awesome
Michael
September 22nd, 2011 10:33 amOMG this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!111
fireworks
November 5th, 2011 4:30 amnice pictures u got there. u might want to add nicer and more desighny fireworks pictires please. NOT BEING RUDE!JUST A COMMENT.
Jack Wong
December 1st, 2011 12:06 amHi,
These are the most stunning snaps of fireworks I have ever seen. Is it possible to use one as part of my web site ?
Cheers,
Jack.