I was awake and I had a camera so why not. Don't know the first thing about taking fireworks and not going to fight the crowds for a show that lasts maybe 15 to 20 minutes. But these aren't bad for being viewed from my driveway. I just set a low aperture and held the shutter down and waited. Once I actually got one explosion. The rest of the time it takes so long to complete that you get several fireworks going off. It was kind of fun. But I won't win any rewards for my fireworks photography. This is over the garage and through the trees.
@atwinfay Thanks Sharron, don't find time to reply to your comments. Trying to follow more people for inspiration. But some of my earliest follows feel like friends, like you.
For me, this is the best of the three Joan because of the multiple bursts and the range of colours... the only thing spoiling the image is the dark triangle of the garage roof. So here's a little challenge for you with your new processing toys: crop this image sraight across just below the lower central burst and then use the clone-stamp tool in Photoshop CC to fill in the black areas. Resample regularly from different areas (including the cloned areas for continuity) and resample and re-clone anything you're not happy with, until you are. In fact, use the clone stamp tool first and crop after you feel you have retouched as much of the black as is possible. I think you will be be delighted and very pleased with yourself... mail me the result so I can be pleased for you too.
@vignouse I have two assignments to get caught up on my natural light and a get pushed shadow challenge, so bear with me if I don't get to this for a while. Instead of mailing I will be mailing you a link to a folder in my cloud account for mentor sharing. THen I can include the original. I was mostly posting these to show how I watch the fireworks and was pleased that I got anything. This is my favorite too. Also amazed by the fact that so many individual fireworks showed up on one picture. Sort of a lesson here for timed photograph.
I think these are great! We have fireworks competitions going on here in Montréal all summer and I just hope I can manage to get at least a sparkle out of them.... If you have any tips, Joan....
@sharleen I used a tripod. Then I put the camera in manual and played with my aperture to sort of a mid point on my lens and set a long shutter time. This way my camera caught all the explosions that happened in those few seconds. Using this method you get multiply explosions but you need to keep shooting to get one that you like.
I think that you did really well. Maybe this will help. I am a fan of James Beltz's Phototips on YouTube. I watched him last year as he explains how to shoot fireworks. He has you set your camera in the manual mode using the settings of; f-stop 5.6 shutter speed 1 second and ISO 400. That's where I started but changed to f5.6, 1.3 seconds and ISO 200. Here is a link to the video if you'd care to watch it : http://youtu.be/DZrGkc-c7wU
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