When shooting fireworks, shoot at the highest
resolution possible. If your camera has an
uncompressed RAW format option, go with that.
Otherwise, select the image setting that will
compress your image the least. Compression can
skew colors and reduce saturation as well as add
unwanted noise to your image, particularly in
nighttime skies. Using the image sensor to its
fullest potential also allows you extra image size
in case you need to crop your image later.
Note: The trade-off of using a less compressed
image format (such as RAW or TIFF) is the
time it takes to write the ?le to your storage
media. If you ?nd your shots taking too long
to save, go a step down to speed things up.
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