FIREWORKS!!!

July 4th in the United States means fireworks! Like many others we went to our local show.

Some of the shots gave me light on the crowd below. I really wanted that effect. I feel it gives the display some "grounding". I still had to do some editing to really bring them up. But I think they worked for many of the shots. Here are a few of my favorites. To see more, just click on the images.Of course I had to include some closer shots. This one was pretty cool.

Details on the settings are included on my web site. But the basics are a sturdy tripod, "mirror up", cable release, a small aperture (large "f" number), a longer shutter speed (~2 seconds for most of these), focus set at infinity, and timing. I think I got the timing pretty good on these since I could see the "shells" going up and started the shutter when I saw the burst.

Enjoy,
Light Cipher

Correction regarding the 1966 Corvair

I got some of the facts wrong in the previous post. My father had this to say after reading it...

"I'm not up on this "bloging" but what I see, I like. As to the car, it is a drivers side remote mirror. It also has: automatic trans, bucket seats, wooden steering wheel, air conditioning, 140 engine. (Stock with 4 carbs, two primary and two secondary. It has lots of zip."

It is a very nice car. Thanks to my parents for helping me get this shot.

Light Cipher

Happy 4th of July USA!!!

So I went home for my 20th high school reunion... Man do I feel old... So my parents have some classic Corvair cars. One of which is a 1966 4 door Corsa which was used on the Chevy proving ground. Among other unique features it has a passenger side remote control mirror; something rare in 1966. As it turns out my parent actually purchased their house in July 1966. So I thought this following picture was pretty appropriate...

July 4th 1966...


Happy July 4th to the United States!

Light Cipher