How to use GIFs to take better fireworks photos

Each and every July — since perhaps the dawn of time — our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook feeds are bombarded with low-lit and grainy photos of fireworks displays. These shots are never not mundane, even when they're capturing a wondrous explosion of light in the night's sky. That's because your average smartphone photographer is often too far away from the show, without a healthy amount of light or a steady tripod setup, to truly capture what their eye is seeing.
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