Fireworks and White-Balance settings?

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5th November is coming soon and many will be out to shoot the fireworks. I was wondering what is the best white balance setting to use for this type of shoot?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Thanks. I always shoot in raw; but still I would much rather get the WB right out of the camera than to have to fiddle with it in PP.
 
Its got to be auto hasn't it. I can't see its really possible to set a precise one in camera
 
There is no reason why there can't be a multiple-area meets :shrug:



stan the man said:
i'm interested in this too....hows about a south wales TP meet somewhere to shoot some fireworks :shrug:
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I am not sure if I will be going to the fair on the 5th Nov., here in Swansea. I am still undecided, as progress in my research will dictate where and how far I go. I was thinking of going down to London, too!
 
Wail said:
There is no reason why there can't be a multiple-area meets :shrug:





I am not sure if I will be going to the fair on the 5th Nov., here in Swansea. I am still undecided, as progress in my research will dictate where and how far I go. I was thinking of going down to London, too!
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london will be out of the question for me,but somewhere local would be okay....let me know if you fancy a local meet to shoot some fireworks.
 
If you don't mind, I will get back to you later tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. Whichever way, I will PM you and post a thread for this :).
 
Wail said:
Thanks. I always shoot in raw; but still I would much rather get the WB right out of the camera than to have to fiddle with it in PP.
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I'm with you on this too - and I doubt it helps, but I suspect that different types of fireworks will burn at different temperatures & therefore different colour temperatures depending on the chemicals/metals in them. If so, I doubt there is one WB setting that captures all 'correctly'

If you are shooting the scene too (rather than just pointing skyward for the patterns) I'd just aim for a WB setting for that and let the fireworks take care of themselves

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DD
 
DD,

Thank you for the tip, and it seems I will be using a trial of different WB setting .. and I may even attempt to try out AutoWB, I've never liked this setting and never used it before.

I was hoping to get the fireworks alone - pointing skywards; but I may try to get some landscape in there, too.

Again, thank you for the input ... at least I know which way to go and I can plan my shooting better.
 
No-one is going to know exactly what colour the fireworks were so I doubt it matters very much. AutoWB will give you the best result I would think - and then you just have to tweak it in PP if you don't like what you get - no other way.
 
If you are shooting fireworks with any other lights in the scene, street lights, floodlight buildings etc, then I would set the WB for the lights, tungsten/incandescent. I used to set the WB for daylight if there were no other light sources in the scene, and the white fireworks are trying to replicate 'white light'. Now shooting in RAW it is not as critical, but it is nice to get as close to the correct WB anyway.

Try daylight and tungsten/incandescent, and see which you like.

I think you may get odd results with Auto WB imho, as it could get confused by the different colours.
 
Thanks for the advice. I guess I will try various WB settings to see what comes out of it.

Of course, PP can help .. but I try to keep that to an absolute minimum :).
 
What sort of exposure times would be good for shooting fireworks? I presume a tripod is a must?
 
justinframe said:
Sounds like a good plan to me!
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May be starting a new thread for this would be best, with a title to indicate such a meet :shrug:

I am sure there are a number around here who would like to attend.

Personally, I am trying to get out of having to go to London, but it seems like at the moment I am stuck on having to go!
 
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