Fireworks Show, Pyro Shows does well in Oak Ridge, Tennessee with happy viewers but photographer not as successful with fireworks photographs

Each fireworks photograph has a caption with the camera settings. These are settings you may use as a photo guide line or rule of thumb. Read the previous blog post for settings used last year: This year exposure was longer. The same remote(bulb) shutter trigger method was used but more time was spent trying to get the best photo image. What was different? The fireworks show was different, at least it seemed different. This year many more multiple fireworks shots were done with overlapping blasts. Taking a photograph of a single shot and blast was difficult, indeed.

All photos were taken with manual settings: ISO 100, f/9, shutter controlled with a remote release(bulb). Times are given with each fireworks photo posted.

 4.1 sec. Fireworks Chaos

The multiple pyrotechnics shot rapidly together created a spectacular light of color and combination of fire forms in the night sky. The above photograph is one I call “pyro chaos” to describe the rapid fire shells and color blasts. The show was effective but proved difficult to photograph single, well defined pyrotechnic blast forms.  The ones show here are  exceptions to the normal photos of that evening.

2.1 sec

3.9 sec, a favorite blast photo---note the second tail indicating

a second display was just missed and would have 

overlapped and obscured this fireworks "angelic palm tree".

The company presenting the fireworks is located in La Follette, Tennessee, an easy 40 minute drive from the city where these photographs were shot.   Pyro Shows  presents smaller shows like the one we saw and huge spectacular pyrotechnic events in major cities across the USA.  Many shows are custom designed to suit the event and may contain custom made pyrotechnic display explosives. I wonder how a person becomes a fireworks designer or engineer?

 1.4 sec, wonderfully beautiful pyrotechnics