Fireworks Pics

[Misled]

Post them here. I went with a 1.5 SS because of Zambellies tending to shoot those flash booms almost every 3 shots.

 

[Misled]

 

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[Dino]

My entries. Planning on posting more later but have a birthday party to run to.

 

[brianbigoats]

 

[brianbigoats]

This was my first try with fireworks pics and i am learning a new camera i just upgraded on thursday from a canon 300D to a 40d

 

[rams]

photobucket always seems to darken up my pics... Columbia, IL 2009

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[t5Nitro]

Here's one:

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

No fire work pictures from me this year.
I went to the Cocacola 400 in Daytona on the 4th. They had a wild fire works display but we were racing 100,000 other people back to the bus line like we do every year when the fireworks start. It is the difference between a 10 minute wait and a 3 hour wait to board a bus. We made the bus in 15 minutes this year so that wasn't too bad! Anyway there are some beautiful shots in here, *nice one Dino*, and I'd love to see more! The race was awesome. My seats are at the entrance to pit road which is just behind the finish line. Cars were finishing the race sideways and reverse @ 200mph right in front of us. That was quite a fireworks show. =) Go #42!!

 

[MeuserReef]

Dino, do you mind sharing your methods for capturing these awesome shots? (f/? @ 1/??? @ ??mm)

 

[rams]

sorry wanted to through some up cropped so you peeps can see them better.

ram

 

[Dino]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15315552#post15315552 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MeuserReef
Dino, do you mind sharing your methods for capturing these awesome shots? (f/? @ 1/??? @ ??mm)

Heck no! Those are trade secrets!







J/k, all of these were shot on full manual (my camera might as well not even have anything besides manual because its all I use anymore). My f-stop was anywhere between f/9.0 and f/11 I believe. The couple I checked up above were shot at f/9.0 but I know for a few of the shots I took that night I stopped down to f/11. ISO was 100, SS was either 4 or 5 seconds (again, I started the night at 5 but was getting too many bursts for my tastes so I upped the shutter speed so I wouldn't have to use my piece of cardboard so much). I was shooting at 28mm which is as wide as I can go at the moment (gotta get around to buying an UWA one of these days). I was of course tripod mounted as well, and something else I think that is of importance is I had mirror lockup turned on. For those that don't know what it is it raises the mirror prior to opening the shutter so as to eliminate the vibration caused when the mirror slaps up.

 

[sphelps]

This is what happens when you try and take pictures of fireworks without a tripod.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

some of those are pretty awesome sphelps. I really like #5!