Fireworks - a coupla keepers

[Dana]

Started badly...my tripod, which had broken a few weeks ago, then seemed to miraculously heal itself, broke again for good just before the show started.

Set up using my little ballpod tripod sitting on top of a small coldpak bag. :-) Camera was about 1 1/2 feet off the ground, and I sat next to it in a beach chair looking down at the LCD swiveled out and up so I could see what was being captured. Definitely not a pro setup, but w/out the swivel LCD all would have been lost...bless that feature!

Got a few good shots in spite of the bad setup. URL below. I'm particulary proud of the last one on the page - it reminds me of a set of Chinese/Japanese characters flowing down from the sky....

Dana

http://home.san.rr.com/dawhites/fireworks-03.htm

[hypokondriak]

I like that last one a lot too. It's pretty interesting to see the different shapes the fireworks make with various shutter speeds.

Here are some of mine:

http://www.digiapogee.com/july4.htm

I stuck with f8.0 for my shots, and started with a shutter of 6-8s... but the city lights were killing the contrast of the fireworks so I dropped down to the 3s range. I was really kicking myself for not buying a 2x telephoto tonight.. oh well. (Stuck back away to avoid fighting crowds).

There are also a few of my first attempts at photographing flowers that I attempted while home for the holidays (mothers always have such great gardens, eh?). I never really had a ton of macro interest before, but now I think I might pick up some macro lenses with my next paycheck... we'll see.

[BigD]

Looks like we all had some type of problem. LOL Here's mine for the offering.

http://www.msnusers.com/CanonG3Shots/shoebox.msnw

The last picture's title pretty much tell the story. Could have kick myself after see I had a prime spot and what a different one would have made. Been in photography as a hobby for over 20 yrs now. But "Oh-No" anyone in this hobby for that long surely can hand-hold a camera steady for a least a full sec right? Would blame it on drinking, but a don't even drink!

[Dana]

Excellent - you also got an asian character shot, although w/color. :-)

Really like the 4th and last fireworks shots.

Dana

[BigD]

Dana, it's time for us to go to bed. lol

[Dana]

BigD wrote:
Dana, it's time for us to go to bed. lol

True.

Fell asleep in the car while coming back from a camping trip today, and paying the price now. For me, any daytime nap results in late night wide-eyes. A curse I must live with... :-)

Dana

[kb244]

here are mine

http://www.kb244.com/gallery/index.php?gallery=fireworks

other than long shutter speed, I think i'm just happy none of my were blured to hell, or overexposed, or had like bright backdrop.

[Dana]

kb244 wrote:
here are mine

http://www.kb244.com/gallery/index.php?gallery=fireworks

other than long shutter speed, I think i'm just happy none of my were blured to hell, or overexposed, or had like bright backdrop.

Nice - really like the first one.

Dana

[Shaner (Ut)]

Well since we are all showing off our fireworks pics heres one of mine.
I got bored last night and did some playing around with it .... not sure if I like it or not but here it is anyways.


http://www.pbase.com/image/18677437

[mbotija]

I like very the dark background you`ve got.
a few questions like: which was the ISO setting, 50, 100, 200,400?
exposure time? and diafragm?

thanks,
Manuel

[LaiLai]

Here goes nothing! http://images.deviantart.com/large/photography/longexposure/Fireworks_25.jpg
There are more on my site if you like this one @ www.deviantshannon.deviantart.com
Thanks, Shannon

[Shaner (Ut)]

Hi Manuel,
Not sure if ya was directing your question to me but I'll answer anyways :)
I had ISO set at 50, shutter speed was 4 seconds and aperture 8.
I just wish they would of turned out that dang light... I edited the light out on a different pic and it looks a lot better.



Great Picture LaiLai

[bcstanford]

These are all great shots! I just got my G3 on Thursday, so I figured the Fourth would be a nice little test drive...

You can check out my pics at http://www.pbase.com/bcstanford if you so desire. There are also some pics of the hydroplane races they had at the same place over the weekend.

Let me know what you think!

[satnitefever]

Asian charater? LoL I persume you guy mean the fireworks resemble the strokes used when writing asian charaters..