The Grand Finale!

GraphyFotoz

It's been a while since I took any pics or posted any.

Never been that handy at fireworks shots but outta 12 or so these 2 were the best. :dunno
Taken with the Wifes Canon Pro-1 at Hiland Park within a Mountain Bike ride from the house.

eL eSs Vee

They're still far better than the more than 100 images I took!

Good job!

GraphyFotoz

eL eSs Vee wrote:

They're still far better than the more than 100 images I took!

Good job!

Thanx man......I tried!
Not easy to do....timimg is everything!

bendruckerphoto

Keeping the shutter open longer would give you broader streaks of light. Not bad though.

Raina.Rae

Your fireworks look good to me, even better then mine. I used the multi-capture and high speed shooting function on my camera to capture the pictures. It cuts down on the timing issue but gives you a ton of shots to go through later and reduces the quality a bit. But I still think it is really hard to get good shots.
If you want mine are here http://MunchkinPhotos.smugmug.com/gallery/5336096_dDJxE/1/326107735_BazR3

eL eSs Vee

baseballboy828 wrote:

Keeping the shutter open longer would give you broader streaks of light. Not bad though.

That's just one of the things I did wrong. I also didn't check my focus properly, (for a photographer, that's a sin!) and I framed too tightly. My first time. Oh well!

bendruckerphoto

You really just want to focus to infinity most of the time. Autofocus will just get confused with all the dark sky.

pathfinder

Hi Graphy,

We have had a thread in the Technique forum about shooting fireworks displays.

The short story is low ISO ( 100 for Canon, or 200 for Nikon ), f8 or thereabouts - check your histogram after a few frames, camera in Manual mode with shutter speed of 2 - 10 seconds or so, focus set to Infinity and Autofocus turned completely off. A good tripod firmly mounted on solid ground ( I lost a few frames due to bridge movement when cars rolled across the bridge I was shooting from), and a cable release or a remote shutter release.. Be sure your batteries are fully charged, long shutter times eat up batteries more quickly.

Some of my shots can be seen here

GraphyFotoz

Thanx for the kind comments and info guys!
I'll keep practicing!

Pic made it to the local news at least.