July 4th 2011 Fireworks in Thousand Oaks

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited July 11, 2011 in Other Cool Shots
Canon 7D + 100-400L at 400mm, f/11, bulb, tripod, remote, 5..6 miles away

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The rest is here:
http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/17888112_Zmw669

This post was made with the assistance of Star*Explorer
"May the f/stop be with you!"

Comments

  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2011
    Very cool! Beautiful work, Nikolai!
    The Moose is Loose!
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  • wolf911wolf911 Registered Users Posts: 273 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2011
    I agree, nice job
    ~KJS~
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  • tkerrtkerr Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited July 5, 2011
    Very Nice, Great work!
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2011
    Nicely done! Where were you shooting from?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2011
    Thanks guys!
    @David: from the hill next to my house, the one I'm usually shooting sunsets from...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • EddyEddy Registered Users Posts: 320 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2011
    Hey Nik.. any settings you can post please..
    E.J.W

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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2011
    Beautiful thumb.gif
    Mary
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2011
    Eddy wrote: »
    Hey Nik.. any settings you can post please..
    Eddy, they are on the very first line of the lead post :-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2011
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Beautiful thumb.gif
    Thank you Mary!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited July 10, 2011
    Very nice shots, Nik! thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2011
    kdog wrote: »
    Very nice shots, Nik! thumb.gif
    Thanks, Joel!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2011
    Just as, if not more (for us!), impressive as the real thing must have been!

    Thanks.

    Neil
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2011
    NeilL wrote: »
    Just as, if not more (for us!), impressive as the real thing must have been!

    Thanks.

    Neil

    While captures are lacking sounds and the smell of gunpowder (neither would be overpowering from that distance anyway), they do tend to increase the effect as the long exposures allow to combine several seconds worth of the display into a single frame.
    Thanks for looking, Neil! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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