Firework shots. Any good?

photocat · November 7, 2004

Yesterday I took my camera for fireworks shots. Had the camera on bulb, aperture on 22, manual focus... I have no clue though if they are supposed to look like they do.
Any comment would be really welcome. What is the best way to do fireworks?

photocat · November 7, 2004

here is another example...
What is the best way to do fireworks?

Head in the Clouds · November 7, 2004

They are fantastic Photocat!

I don't think you need anyone to tell you how to do fireworks - looks like you already know!!!!
Well done. I love them!.

dugmar · November 7, 2004

photocat wrote:

What is the best way to do fireworks?

Kate is right, these are excellent.
Like yours, shot this at F22.
ISO 200, and exposed for 5 seconds.
I was pretty happy with this...

Rest of them are here:
http://dugmar.smugmug.com/gallery/156892/1
Feel free to check them out, the camera settings are posted.
I used all kinds of settings to experiment.

Doug

GREAPER · November 7, 2004

Very nice.

Heres one of mine

photocat · November 7, 2004

GREAPER wrote:

Very nice.

Heres one of mine

Thanks guys and girls for the comments. Dugmar, I took a look at your site and boy, this is what I wanted to do. Grin. Same for Greaper's pic.
I think I had my ISO wrong... I had set it the night before at 1600,
and forgot about it. Usually I have my camera on 200. Which is the lowest setting for my D70.
No wonder that my manual exposures came out overlighted. The last ones I took were with the camera on aperture pref. I took it off the tripod and shot away with the camera above my head... I was terribly frustrated cause I followed the rules that I read about, yet my pics came out totally different then what I had expected.
Thanks for the comment and the settings. It made me check mine and find out what I did wrong. There is always the coming 4th of july...

gubbs · November 9, 2004

I had a go at doing fireworks on Saturday, and boy is it tough, It would really help if they could tell you what & where they are going to launch next, then when you think your getting the hang of it, the rain starts! Any way these are the only 2 that were ok

photocat · November 9, 2004

gubbs wrote:

I had a go at doing fireworks on Saturday, and boy is it tough, It would really help if they could tell you what & where they are going to launch next, then when you think your getting the hang of it, the

I like them Gubbs. The blue one is very radiant. I missed the long strokes in mine.
I think that aperture on 22 or higher, manual focus and 5 ot 8 seconds of lighting, that it should be ok. I will try those settings on the next fireworks.
I see you had a nice water like reflection.
Ours was just in a meadow in Ripn, so no nice lighted buildings to frame it.
Love what you did... I will try to follow all you guys footsteps next time.

gubbs · November 10, 2004

Thanks Cat, if its any help these were done at F4 - 2 secs - iso 100
also there are a few tips and links here

photocat · November 10, 2004

gubbs wrote:

Thanks Cat, if its any help these were done at F4 - 2 secs - iso 100
also there are a few tips and links here

thanks Gubbs, wished I had read that thread last week. Next time I have a project in mind, I will do a search on D-grin first.
Thanks

wxwax · November 10, 2004

Congratulations to everyone who posted a shot of fireworks here. I tried last July 4th, and not a single one looks good. I guess I help my exposure too long - about 5 seconds. Nothing looked like a single, well-defined fireworks explosion.

It's hard. For me, at any rate. And one doesn't have many opportunities to practice.

Richard Cabesa · November 10, 2004

Here are a couple of shots of my neighbors homemade fireworks

I think they are both f8 - 1/6

More Here http://richard-cabesa.smugmug.com/gallery/155933/1/5790329

I haven't been around in a while,

Hello

MainFragger · November 15, 2004

I took fireworks for July 4th this year...
At the Borgata in Atlantic City. Unfortunately, my shots were mostly ruined by the vibrations from the constant bay breeze that comes wafting across my balcony on the 14th floor of my bay side condo. You can tell what they are, but most of the light effects came out wavy from the wind. In a few cases though, I actually liked this effect.

http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/gallery/166624

MainFragger

Firework shots. Any good?

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