Little girl watching fireworks.

Tee Why

Caught a candid moment of a little girl sitting on dad's shoulders watching the nightly fireworks show at Downtown Disney at Disneyland.

Nikolai

Tee Why wrote:

Caught a candid moment of a little girl sitting on dad's shoulders watching the nightly fireworks show at Downtown Disney at Disneyland.

That's a great capture, Tom!

rwells

I'm really liking those OOF fireworks.

I understand it's probably accurate, but I would have like to seen the girls jacket not so red.

Good job


I've missed looking at your shots. To busy to post lately?

frg

thats a great shot Tom

Tee Why

Thanks guys.

rainbow

That is one interesting capture! I am puzzled by the patterns in the blur circles.

What would the fireworks look like with a slower shutter speed at this aperture?

JimM

This is fantastic!

chrisdg

Interesting shot indeed. I don't believe I've ever seen someone intentionally use blurred fireworks as a background. Nice idea!

I bet that father would like to have a copy of that shot. Any chance you grabbed his email address???

Candid Arts

What were your settings for this shot? I'm curious how you lit the little girl with still being able to see the fireworks like that?

Tee Why

Thanks, all.
I was just sitting down and watching the fireworks when the father with his daughter sitting on his shoulders just happen to stand in front of me. A total candid moment, that's all.

I didn't even speak to them. I just took the shots as I saw them. Fireworks in focus, I think would make it less abstract and I just wanted to create interesting light patterns in the background and keep the girl more in focus and isolated from the reality of the fireworks.

I used a Canon 5D with a 135mm f2L lens, in manual.
ISO 500, f2, 1/125 in RAW and processed in LR a bit. The fireworks are actually quiet bright and offers enough ambient lighting for the shot.