So you’ve finally decided that this is the year you’re gonna tackle firework photography. Here are a few tips to help curb some of the headaches.1. Things you’ll want. A tripod, a self-timer or a wired/wireless remote.2. Stake out your location. Know the direction from which the fireworks will be fired and make sure your shot won’t be blocked by any buildings, trees, lightpoles or power lines. You also may want to shoot your photos vertically.3. Firework photos are always dynamic, so why not try adding another element to create more dimension, such as a landmark or statue?4. Lens selection. I usually shoot with a wide-angle and a standard 50mm. (I use two cameras.)5. If you want, you can pop a little flash to light up your foreground. This can be be especially fun if you have an off-camera flash unit and not just the pop-up one built into the camera. During one of those long, two- to three-second exposures, just hit your test button and it will light up whatever you point toward.6. The question everyone wants to know, exposure. For the images above, I shot between two to three seconds long, F11 and ISO 100. I usually just use auto white balance, but I suppose you could just throw it on sunny. Feel free to play with your exposures; longer shutter times will gather more firework bursts and longer trails.Show off your results at magicvalley.com/submit!