Smashing Magazine
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!
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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!
Vailancio Rodrigues, born and currently living in scenic beauty of Goa, spent most of his childhood in art and creativity. At present a college student who likes to try and do different things at every moment. Also a webmaster, web designer and developer.
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December 30th, 2009 5:43 amamazing fireworks and amazing photos! thanks!
- 3December 30th, 2009 5:57 am
Cool photos in the right time.
- 4December 30th, 2009 5:58 am
These are really some Boom! Boom! work
Thanks! for sharing :)
- 5December 30th, 2009 6:17 am
amazing photographs
- 6December 30th, 2009 6:18 am
Very Nice, Quincy looks interesting…
- 7December 30th, 2009 6:20 am
Thanks for the useful tips on shooting fireworks photos
- 8December 30th, 2009 7:02 am
such beautiful photos !!!
- 9December 30th, 2009 7:19 am
Amazing photos. Thanks for sharing!
- 10December 30th, 2009 7:20 am
Great photos, thanks for the share!
- 11December 30th, 2009 7:23 am
There are some great shots here. Unfortunately though the one credited to tunatoss is one of my images. My original is linked below:
- 12December 31st, 2009 12:19 am
Thanks for bringing this to our notice. You have been credited for your work.
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- 13December 30th, 2009 7:49 am
These are some great shots. Thank for sharing!
- 14December 30th, 2009 8:06 am
happy new year…
toettt tet tet !!! - 15December 30th, 2009 8:58 am
I really don’t know why, but I never loved fireworks. Despite this face, some of these photos are really impressive!
- 16December 30th, 2009 9:04 am
The 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- 17December 31st, 2009 4:53 am
Thank you for setting this right!
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- 18December 30th, 2009 10:35 am
Not 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!
- 19December 30th, 2009 10:44 am
Why now? I needed this a few weeks ago, when i was building a fireworks webshop. ;-)
- 20December 30th, 2009 11:01 am
Mesmerizing…Love the photo Bridge to Next Island.
- 21December 30th, 2009 11:08 am
Nice shots! Happy New Year.
- 22December 30th, 2009 11:55 am
Thanks for these beautiful photos… I’d love to know now some tips for getting this kind of pictures…
- 23December 30th, 2009 12:33 pm
I love the 2nd pictures of Eiffel Tower and brewskizzlr’s.
- 24December 30th, 2009 3:54 pm
great pictures! the Eiffel Tower shots are amazing!
happy new year! - 25December 30th, 2009 4:31 pm
Happy New Year!
Your pictures are beautiful! - 26December 30th, 2009 5:09 pm
I love the bokeh one I want to do that!
- 27December 30th, 2009 9:13 pm
Happy New Year.Nice Collection, thanks for sharing.
- 28December 30th, 2009 10:57 pm
Where do you find these images. SM’s resource Collection team is excellent. Thanks. I like them all.
- 29December 31st, 2009 12:52 am
All 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.- 30December 31st, 2009 8:08 am
piss off MUSA!!!
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- 31December 31st, 2009 1:07 am
Great shots. Some are truly amazing. Happy New Year!
- 32December 31st, 2009 7:01 am
All are good, but this is the best one!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jul85/115903293/ - 33December 31st, 2009 8:07 am
these 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!!!
- 34December 31st, 2009 10:55 am
Excelents pictures and great post, happy new year for all and best regards, health and happiness.
- 35January 1st, 2010 3:40 pm
Cool! 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 - 36January 2nd, 2010 5:41 am
nice photos – why didnt mine make the final cut :(
http://www.flickr.com/photos/306/340215186/ - 37January 2nd, 2010 6:50 am
It’s very nice!
- 38January 3rd, 2010 12:51 am
Absolutely stunning!
- 39January 3rd, 2010 2:06 am
Thanks for featuring my fireworks photograph!
- 40January 3rd, 2010 5:47 am
very beautiful~
- 41January 3rd, 2010 6:06 am
Stunning! It’s a refreshment to see many powerful pictures like this.. thanks
- 42January 3rd, 2010 8:22 am
amazing…..!!! \m/
- 43January 3rd, 2010 4:12 pm
Some great shots and some that shouldn’t rate a mention. Thanks for sharing.
- 44January 3rd, 2010 10:12 pm
NYE in Hobart Tasmania
http://www.themercury.com.au/images/gallery/remote/2010/01/01/158055.jpg
- 45January 4th, 2010 2:16 am
A friend of mine took two great shots some days ago:
http://www.designnachmas.de/?p=790 - 46January 4th, 2010 3:07 am
Stunning. Love these
- 47January 4th, 2010 9:47 am
Here is my best show about fireworks i really like it
- 48January 4th, 2010 11:18 am
Woah! 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=FireworksEnjoy. :)
- 49January 7th, 2010 11:12 pm
For 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.
- 50January 10th, 2010 5:11 am
Truly 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.
- 51January 16th, 2010 10:32 am
Wow awesome picx..
- 52February 3rd, 2010 5:37 am
This 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.
- 53February 11th, 2010 12:23 am
looks super ;)
- 54April 11th, 2010 3:44 pm
I 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
- 55June 27th, 2010 7:47 am
Wow! extremely great fireworks show and also i appreciated photographers they toke really nice shots. Awesome photography
- 56July 19th, 2010 2:34 am
I love all these Snaps
- 57September 8th, 2010 4:23 am
Whaou, there are very good pictures and great diversity here!
Here are mine: http://www.cyrilalmeras.com/photos/nuit/feu-d-artifice/
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