July 4th on Beaver Island: lunchtime picnic, parade through Main Street, dinner with friends with house on the harbor, fireworks viewing to end the day. Not a bad way to spend the day.
Thank you for sharing yesterday's humor of the romantic watering cans!
Fav. Wonderful capture. I am waiting for parish festas to start around the locality I frequent to take some fireworks shot. One was last week-end but I was watching football.
@alophoto Some of it is luck, but I tend to do lower ISO (100 - 320) and reasonable aperture (e.g., 6.3 - 11.0) to allow for a shutter speed between 4 and 12 seconds. At 4 seconds you get the burst elements (maybe the line up and a short opening, or maybe just the firework burst while at 8 - 12 you can get the trails, opening and smoke. But it is a lot of trial and error to get it to the right amount of light for the shutter speed you find useful. It also depends on whether the fireworks include a lot of flashes of white light, which at long speeds, blows out the color too much. And it depends on amount of time between shots, as if you have a lot of bursts close together, you end up with the shots of multiple lines/colors/trails -- and then it really is luck whether it makes for a good image or not. I took about 30 shots, and liked 3 of them, and this was the only one I really liked enough to post.
