Fireworks Over the Harbor by taffy

Fireworks Over the Harbor

The celebrations on Beaver Island ended tonight with a beautiful show of fireworks, viewed from a friend who has a terrific view from their deck. The celebrations started earlier in the day with a picnic and parade - in extras album: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2015-07-04
And another fireworks... http://365project.org/taffy/special-photos/2015-07-04
I hope my US friends had fun today and all others are enjoying their weekend!
Excellent shot
July 5th, 2015  
Oh YES! I was waiting for this. Not seeing any here...but here them in the "hood". Charlie is not too happy about it. This is really beautiful. You captured it so beautiful....love those reflections.
July 5th, 2015  
Excellent and love the reflections!
July 5th, 2015  
Beautiful
July 5th, 2015  
Spectacular fireworks, what a great shot.
July 5th, 2015  
Beautiful shot! Love the reflection.
July 5th, 2015  
Simply perfect!
July 5th, 2015  
Oooh this is brilliant! A fav!
July 5th, 2015  
Fabulous fireworks shots! :)
July 5th, 2015  
Stunning capture! How lucky you could watch the display from your friend's deck! Fav!
July 5th, 2015  
Spectacular!
July 5th, 2015  
Fantastic!
July 5th, 2015  
Stunning !!
July 5th, 2015  
Oooh I love fireworks :)
July 5th, 2015  
Taffy, you! absolutely nailed this one! Instant Fav
July 5th, 2015  
Incredible, the fireworks and your shot!
July 5th, 2015  
What a fantastic shot, you nailed it!!
July 5th, 2015  
Fabulous capture, especially with the reflections. Stunning shot.
July 5th, 2015  
lovely display! The reflections are an added bonus. fav.
July 5th, 2015  
Wonderful capture Taffy. Lovely colours, clarity and reflections. Fav
July 5th, 2015  
This is gorgeous, To have that reflection is a bonus,
July 5th, 2015  
Stunning capture love the reflection and the colours are brilliant. Fav
July 5th, 2015  
Wow!! Love everything about this one! Fav
July 5th, 2015  
wow impressive display and capture
July 5th, 2015  
Really stunning with the multicolours. Thanks for the info on Beaver Island. Everyone must get into the spirit of things over there!
July 5th, 2015  
Just a perfect fireworks capture! FAV
July 5th, 2015  
- agree with everyone else a fantastic firework photo!
July 5th, 2015  
Superb - fav!
July 5th, 2015  
Great clear fieworks shot, lovely reflections
July 5th, 2015  
Great reflections! Fav!
July 5th, 2015  
So gorgeous with the reflections. Fav!
July 5th, 2015  
Great. Love fireworks over water.
July 5th, 2015  
Love it!
July 5th, 2015  
love the reflections off the lake
July 5th, 2015  
This is a stunning shot, made even more so by the lovely reflection, a fav.
July 5th, 2015  
Perfect image for the holiday. Well done!!! FAV.
July 5th, 2015  
Beautifully captured and a great reflection. Fav!! 😃
July 5th, 2015  
WOW! Fantastic Firework Fav!
July 5th, 2015  
Wow, this is gorgeous!
July 5th, 2015  
Impressive! This has double the impact with the gorgeous reflection over the lake!
July 5th, 2015  
Amazing shot, beautifully done. A big fave.
July 5th, 2015  
Gorgeous
July 5th, 2015  
@redy4et There were only 2 in the entire show that ended up low enough to reflect so I was REALLY happy to catch this one! Thanks for the visits/comments today!
July 5th, 2015  
Another cracker, love the reflections
July 5th, 2015  
BEAUTIFUL...Fav
July 5th, 2015  
Very nice! I love the reflection.
July 5th, 2015  
Instant FAV
July 5th, 2015  
Oh wow, amazing firework capture.
July 5th, 2015  
Brilliant capture! I love the reflection.
July 5th, 2015  
Great shot
July 5th, 2015  
Magnificent!
July 5th, 2015  
really nice shot...fav.
July 5th, 2015  
stunning capture.
July 5th, 2015  
Excellent- I took some shots without tripod and they all look like Pollack's-art- haha!!:)
July 5th, 2015  
Wow I knew you would get a great firework shot, esp love it with the reflection!
Sounds like it was a great 4th of July!
July 5th, 2015  
Well done Taffy!
July 5th, 2015  
A terrific shot. Fav.
July 5th, 2015  
Gorgeous. Very nice work, Taffy!!
July 5th, 2015  
FAB -- U -- LOUS !! --So exiting ! --I love fireworks !! super shot and reflection ! fav
July 5th, 2015  
Fabulous shot. Fav
July 5th, 2015  
If I was there, I'd be saying, "Oooooooooo!" Beautiful shot!
July 5th, 2015  
So lovely with the reflection!
July 6th, 2015  
Beautiful. Great reflection in the water.
July 6th, 2015  
FAV -- beautiful firework and perfect capture! I was invited to go out in a boat last night where I could have seen fireworks from about 5 - 7 different cities along the lake but I declined . . . now wishing I had gone!
July 6th, 2015  
@jyokota Oh, that would have been wonderful! Although it was nice to be able to set the camera on the tripod and have it be in a stable place rather than bobbing about, but without camera, it would be so fun to be on the lake for fireworks!
July 6th, 2015  
Fantastic fireworks and reflection! Gorgeous image!
July 6th, 2015  
Wonderful fireworks shot!
July 6th, 2015  
Super fireworks shot... maybe one year, I can give this a try. A classically beautiful result - perfection, with reflections, to boot. Nice, nice work.
July 6th, 2015  
Kim
Love the patriotic sky and reflection. fav
July 6th, 2015  
Incredible picture. Congratulations on making the Trending Page and the PP. Well deserved.
July 6th, 2015  
Wow, what a fabulous photo, Taffy. I love the colors and detail. Beautiful reflections too. What a view. Glad you had a nice 4th, we did too. FAV
July 6th, 2015  
Awesome too. So many perfect shots. Fav
July 6th, 2015  
Breath-taking! You have nailed the fireworks, for sure!
July 6th, 2015  
Best fireworks shot of the year by my accounting. Love teh simplicity, the sharpness, the reflection, the distant signs of lfe. fav
July 6th, 2015  
Love this ...fireworks and reflections. Fav
July 6th, 2015  
oh my goodness... this is quite spectacular!
July 7th, 2015  
Fantastic Taffy!!!! Out of curiosity, did you shoot in Aperture Mode?
July 7th, 2015  
@shesnapped Thanks Ashley! I used manual, going by a bunch of articles I'd read during the day. Then I set the aperture initially to f11 and the ISO to 100, but it was too blown out. I wanted to keep noise low so didn't want to change ISO. I needed the long exposure to get the full spray movement. So I changed the aperture to f18 to f22 and experimented.
July 7th, 2015  
A Fav. Beautifully captured! Love the colours and the detail.
July 7th, 2015  
@taffy Thanks Taffy! I was with the grandbabies over the weekend, so no fireworks for us, but will be headed out next weekend to see some, so the info is much appreciated! Do you have any links that were especially helpful?
July 7th, 2015  
@shesnapped I didn't save any of them as they all basically repeated the same themes: use a tripod with an external shutter release; and then they gave ranges of what they thought to be the best combination of ISO (100 or less to 400) and aperture (f5.6 to 11 were the most common, but I still had to play with it and ended up much lower). The shutter speed most commonly recommended was bulb with a 2 - 6 second exposure. But a few said set at 6 seconds and adjust if needed. The thing is, each one is different so a standard setting really isn't that effective. What I did was, on bulb, as the firework was launched, I pressed the internal shutter and held it until the firework opened up and started fading. Then, I looked at what I had VERY QUICKLY and got a feel for what would be blown out or under exposed. I did it over and over and over so that sometimes I waited until it popped, opened and closed in maybe 3 seconds. Other times I saw the light of the launch and opened to catch the light 'stem' and closed once it had opened and some trailing occurred. You'll have great shots as long as you adjust after the first 2 or 3, and then just keep clicking! I ended up with almost 40 'useable' shots. I just did some cropping post processing and a little adjustment to exposure (up or down). I didn't need to do anything with saturation or color as that was fine, but there were a few I played around with. The ones I posted here, though, we adjusted pretty much with cropping and exposure/contrast sliders. Have fun!
July 7th, 2015  
@shesnapped Sorry for all the typos!
July 7th, 2015  
@taffy THANKS Taffy! Great explanation! Better than any I've read in the past. I'll definitely be trying this next weekend!
July 7th, 2015  
Amazing shot! Fav!
July 10th, 2015  
Congratulations on TT!

July 10th, 2015  
This is stunning! I clicked to put it on the black and it's even better!
July 10th, 2015  
So glad to see this on TT
July 10th, 2015  
Wonderful work, Taffy, fabulous capture. Fav, naturally. Congrats on TT.
July 12th, 2015  
Congratulations Taffy - No 2 TT WOW!!
July 12th, 2015  
Are those fireworks touching the water? That looks totally amazing!
August 4th, 2015  
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