This summer I challenged myself to take photographs during a fireworks festival. The loud boom, the flash of lights and some form of skyline to set the location. This is by no means an easy maneuver to accomplish. Every camera now includes a setting for fireworks nowadays. The camera basically changes to a wide open aperture and as low a shutter speed as possible. Any nudge or shake will make the image blurry.
It doesn't always work though. My family was shooting off photos this fourth and there was a very particular image my sister-in-law Jenna wanted. She sat on the driveway and wanted kids back lit by fireworks. Her camera wouldn't set correctly for fireworks and the kids. They were squirming, moving around and just plain kids! One of my nieces was crying off and on as they exploded. She struggled with sitting. After sitting on her father's laps we finally got it set up. To take an image like this you need a stable location, set your shutter speed to 1/60 of a second or slower and your aperture as big as it can get. Normally f/4.5 helps but if you can open it more to f/1.8 is better. Here's the version from my phone. It has a lot less controls but it gives you an idea of her goal.
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