>So I tried my hand for the first time at photographing fireworks and I thought I would share the results and how I achieved these results.

Firstly here in the UK we are fast approaching November 5th, known as Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night, a celebration in the catching of Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament, also known as the Gun Powder Plot. So we celebrate this with Bonfires and firework displays.

Firstly I went to a large display, one that used very large fireworks. I got there 4 hours before the display was due to start to get a good spot ( turned out to be too close really ). Set up my equipment whilst it was still light. I focused my camera up on the point where they were launching the fireworks from, in this case it was a small island on a lake. Using a portrait...

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