Bursting: Fireworks | In Air | Explode
Rightio - no fireworks happening here. I thought about bursting balloons as I would really like to try capture the moment the balloon explodes with water, but you really need someone to help. So when I went into the shops to buy pumpkin to make a roasted pumpkin and apple soup I wanted to try, ( which can be found here) I decided to buy some sparklers as well.
I took a variety of shots on different settings and ended up with some interesting effects. There are some great things you can do with sparklers but you really need to have someone holding it. So for me it was a sparkler in a vase, manually focussing and shooting as fast as possible before it burnt out - as well as trying different aperture and speed settings. It's a little blown out in the centre but I quite liked all the starbursts. I've done some post processing in Lightroom to enhance the effect. I think I have two sparklers going for this photo.
ISO 800, f/7.1, 90mm, 0.3 sec