simple photography question need help?

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kathy

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I'm going to photograph some fireworks tonight with a Nikon P5100 digitlal P&S camera. What mode should I use? It has P, S, A, M, and one that's a shaking hand for less shake.
The less shaky one uses no flash.
 
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This question has been answered a billion times already..

http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AhaByTkVTewIY82lQXMOOuUjzKIX;_ylv=3?p=photographing+fireworks

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Manual (M) is the best choice and your shooting modes are as below:

• Auto shooting mode
• Program (auto)
• Shutter Priority Auto
• Aperture Priority Auto
• Manual
• Movie mode
• Scene mode
• High-sensitivity shooting mode
• Anti-shake mode

You might want to use the Auto ISO feature (allows the camera to determine proper exposures from 64 through 800) but you can go up to as high as 3200 if the situation permits.

Your zoom capability is 4x so you may find that for fireworks, your camera is ideally suited.

The problem is, you didn't say 'TRIPOD' and, shooting fireworks is only done properly with one.

You have up to an 8 second shutter time - enough time to record some awesome light displays and, with scene modes that include Face-priority AF, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Portrait, Party/Indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Close up, Museum, Fireworks show, Copy, Back Light and Panorama Assist, you might want to use Night Landscape as your scene mode.

Have fun but do get a tripod for this or you will be sick with the results you get.
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Practice first! Each camera is different! If you have the manual for your camera, get it out and read about each setting.
I highly recommend a tripod to keep your camera steady.
If you do not have a tripod, you can get one for $12-$20 at Walmart in the electronics section!

Mount the camera on the tripod and practice taking pictures of the moon, or a street light. Set the camera on each setting and take pictures in the order that they are in your camera (then you can go back and view them and will know which setting is the best for your low light situation).

Since your camera is digital, you can just delete the bad ones and keep the great ones!
 
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