New Life Baptist Church's Summer Festival by skipt07

New Life Baptist Church's Summer Festival

We went to our daughter's and granddaughter's church today for their Summer Festival. Here are two shells breaking bringing a wonderful day to and end.
I followed Jimmy Beltz's suggestions for shooting fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrGkc-c7wU
Wowsers...great capture Skip! fav
August 12th, 2013  
Just super, Skip! Love the crispness of your fireworks. Sounds like a perfect time! Fav!
August 12th, 2013  
Brilliant shot!
August 12th, 2013  
Great pic!!!
August 12th, 2013  
Fabulous!
August 12th, 2013  
Cool! It feels like I'm right there!!
August 12th, 2013  
very cool! I love how they fill the frame.
August 12th, 2013  
Beautiful
August 12th, 2013  
wonderful
August 12th, 2013  
Excellent timing a fabulous shot
August 12th, 2013  
What an effective shot, sounds like a good way to spend the day.
August 12th, 2013  
@lynnb @amandal @calm @quickshots @jetpics @kwind @melody2289 @kerristephens @alisonp @04haze @paulaw
Thank you all for your gracious comments and the Favs! I followed Jimmy Betz's You Tube suggestions for shooting fireworks. Set my camera to manual, using f/5.6, ISO 400 and shutter speed of 1 sec.. I mounted the camera on my tripod, used my new lens zoomed all the way out to 70mm and used my remote shutter release. I think next time I'll use a smaller lens and try to track a shell from ground to break. I was surprised as to how close, not dangerously close, but closer then normal, to the fireworks crew we were able to get. I missed a lot of shells since we were right at the minimum edge of the fallout area.
August 12th, 2013  
Beautiful capture!
August 12th, 2013  
Very very beautiful!!!! Fabulous shot!
August 12th, 2013  
Great shot!
August 13th, 2013  
@amrita21 @monkeykid @mtpagano
Thank you very much Amrita, Therese and Michelle. I was really pleased with how this turned out too!
August 13th, 2013  
THis came out great. Thanks for posting the link. Useful info.
August 14th, 2013  
Wonderful capture of fireworks! thanks for the link. I will check it out!
August 14th, 2013  
Beautiful!
August 15th, 2013  
@bardejov - Thank you and you are welcome! I hope it helps!

@pflaume - Thank you Lisa! You are welcome! I hope it helps!

@sassik - Thank you very much!
August 17th, 2013  
amazing fireworks shot....
August 19th, 2013  
@dmdfday - Thank you so much Diane!
August 20th, 2013  
@mike_todd - Thank you very much Mike for the Fav!
August 20th, 2013  
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