Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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

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