Whenever I do a shoot I set my cameras up for that particular shoot. For night sports, for example, I might set the camera at 3200 ISO. Last week I photographed a fireworks show and set my camera for that -- manual focus, bulb setting, ISO 200, f10 -- shutter speed was determined by how long I held down the remote shutter trip button. I shoot about five fireworks shows a year and always enjoy them. Depending on the distance there are adjustments I make to f-stop and zoom range. When a shoot is over I reset my camera to my basic settings which are autofocus, auto white balance, ISO 200, f7.1, Aperture mode, -.3. When I returned home and set down to return my settings to base, I noticed I had failed to set the +/- to -.3 or 0 for shooting the fireworks and had left it at -1.3. Usually on these fireworks shoots, I get about 60 to 75% keepers. Of the 223 shots I took, there were about 95% keepers! The mistake of not setting the +/- setting seemed to give me a better result than what I normally get.

Whenever I do a shoot I set my cameras up for that particular shoot. For night sports, for example, I might set the camera at 3200 ISO. Last week I photographed a fireworks show and set my camera for that -- manual focus, bulb setting, ISO 200, f10 -- shutter speed was determined by how long I held down the remote shutter trip button. I shoot about five fireworks shows a year and always enjoy them. Depending on the distance there are adjustments I make to f-stop and zoom range. When a shoot is over I reset my camera to my basic settings which are autofocus, auto white balance, ISO 200, f7.1, Aperture mode, -.3. When I returned home and set down to return my settings to base, I noticed I had failed to set the +/- to -.3 or 0 for shooting the fireworks and had left it at -1.3. Usually on these fireworks shoots, I get about 60 to 75% keepers. Of the 223 shots I took, there were about 95% keepers! The mistake of not setting the +/- setting seemed to give me a better result than what I normally get.