What happened to my fireworks photos?

[ruby3]

Fireworks started out Bulb, manual focus, F8, tripod, remote shutter, 2 to 10 sec timed exposure

[ruby3]

what was wrong.  was it the F stop?

[Mike]

Welcome back to the Community, ruby3!

Were there any specific questions about those settings that the Community can answer? Or any pics showing the results you can post? The Community would love to help, but needs a bit more info about what you're looking for here, please. 

Thanks for reaching out! 

[ruby3]

I used those settings and the picture I posted was what I kept getting.  Just pinpoints no fireworks.  I studied up on all the settings but something must of been wrong that at a 10 second exposure I didn't get anything except the pinpoint of color.

[Danny]

So that the community can give you the best advice, please let us know which Canon camera you're using.  Hope to hear back from you soon!

[stevet1]

ruby3,

First, take your camera out of bulb mode. You don't actually need the Bulb setting until you hit 30 seconds. Le'ts see what happens if you remove Bulb from the equation.

Secondly, go outside on a dark night and take a picture of something like a streetlight or a brightly lit storefront. Do you get the same results?

Third. what ISO were you using? Maybe raising the ISO might help.

Steve Thomas

[LeeP]

What lens were you using?

[MikeSowsun]

Don’t use Bulb mode. I suspect you used Bulb mode, but had it set to open after an 2 second self timer, or 10 self timer. Is that right? If not, I don’t see how you can set a 2 second exposure and also use Bulb mode. It’s impossible to use Bulb mode, and also a timed shutter opening at the same time.

[rs-eos]

Mike hit upon it regarding the 2 or 10 second self timer. My guess is that the shutter speed actually used was fast. Zooming in to the image you posted, I can see just a tiny amount of motion blur with a few particles, but most are frozen.

Do pass along the settings that were used for your images. If you still have the images on your camera, you can review them and typically press the info button to display the settings that were used to capture them. Or, when importing to a computer, if using DPP, Lightroom, etc, you can view the settings there.

[FloridaDrafter]

Some of the EXIF data from the posted image.

Canon EOS 90D
Lens	TAMRON 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD B028
Focal Length	18mm
Aperture	ƒ/8.0
Exposure Time	0.025s (1/40)
ISO equivalent	100

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