Very nice!! I love that you did a collage.....and, that you included the harbor shot in it! Love fireworks! I find that every experience is different....what did you use for these?
@panthora Thanks! I had my kit lens on -- 24-85, and had ISO at 100. I'd set the focus to infinity, aperture at f8 and sometimes up or down just to test it out. I used bulb for shutter speed and just opened it as the firework went into the sky and closed it when the spray had disappeared -- somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds depending on the single or multiples.
@leonbuys83 Thanks Leon. I'm planning to take another of the harbor that would be better. I took this one in a hurry as my husband and the couple who drove were all impatiently waiting for me to finish. It's really only worth seeing small in the current version!
I like the creativity of using a collage to present your firework display images. You have not tried to hide the fact it is a collage but at quick glance it looks like one image. (One for the memory bank next time I shoot fireworks.)
Super collage. Each shot could stand on its own. Thanks for the explanation of how you shot these. I hope to try some shots next month as it's my Mom's 90th birthday and I bought some fireworks.
@taffy Fantastic collage of beautifully captured fireworks. You had such success here! Thanx for providing some info on your technique...faveing it to keep a tab on that info!
Terrific job the the fireworks! Thanks for the explanation of your technique!
I shot fireworks and I had a big problem with overexposure and smoke...did you have any issues (obviously not with this bunch) and if so, how do you deal with the problems...in camera or post processing?
@vskolnik Thanks so much Vee. I didn't have an issue withe smoke because it was such a calm night, with almost no breeze at all. If there was smoke, it wasn't visible from where I was taking the photos. I did overexpose a few of the shots, especially when there were multiples and I tried to get too many of them in. In those cases, the first ones to explode were totally overexposed. I found I could keep it open for up to about 3 of them, but that was it (maybe 15 seconds). I'd learned from ones I tried capturing in Chicago earlier this year that overexposure is a problem and had read to use bulb and open when it's launched, close when it ends, and that seemed to work pretty well at the low ISO and smaller aperture.
I shot fireworks and I had a big problem with overexposure and smoke...did you have any issues (obviously not with this bunch) and if so, how do you deal with the problems...in camera or post processing?