Tutorial: How to photograph fireworks for 4th of July (or any celebration for that matter)

Photography by Stewart Marsden.

Location.

The first time I went into London to photograph the London New Year Fireworks Display I ended up sat on the side of a road shooting them. I had planned with a friend to shoot the display from a construction site somewhere in South London, but as we didn’t have permission to be there it ended up with us being escorted from the premises by the police. We ended up in a street where we could just see the London Eye and waited for the display and hoped for the best.

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