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My pleasure! Next up: Fireworks!
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Good luck Don!
And guess who didnt follow his own advice? Well I DID bring the tripod but the boat was rocking so much it was useless. Went handheld the whole time.
Best of the bunch, IMO, is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/3683802546/in/set-72157620885094256/
And full set is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/sets/72157620885094256/
This one is a bit blurry but i still like it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/3683804098/
More tomorrow at Kaboom on the Navesink, held in Red Bank which is the biggest in NJ.
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I decided to use a film camera for fireworks. It just seems so much simpler, setting it on bulb mode at the lowest iso, with a tripod and cable release. Also gonna be trying out some Fujifilms FP100 instant film as well.
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The "problem" I found with long bulb exposures is all the color bleeds out of them. Good luck with them, maybe you will have better luck than I do!
Had a BLAST at Kaboom tonight, no pun intended. What a great show. Stills are incoming but I got the video up fast!
http://www.vimeo.com/5446385
Download the full size version by right clicking and saving before playing on your own machine:
http://www.navesink.net/public_html/video/imagine.avi
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Put a few pics up tonight, more tomorrow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/...7620928831526/
Think I got some that will make me quite happy this round.
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Looking forward to seeing them!
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"It's not a new dinosaur, but I'll take it"
Something most HTFers may not know about me is that I originally chose my University based on the fact that they have an excellent archaeology and paleontology department, and that I took exactly one semester in that discipline before deciding that, as much as I love dinosaurs, that career path was not for me. My dreams of making a find into the Smithsonian were dashed! Today however the dream came back just a little bit, in a way I never expected...
Smithsonian Magazine has chosen one of my best shots as their picture of the week! You can see the write-up here:
Ironically, the article it accompanies is about how bad Fireworks are for the environment =)
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That was a single 1 second exposure, no photoshop tomfoolery other than levels and cropping to a square. =) If you do a google search for "red white and blue fireworks" it's always the first picture, so it gets quite a few hits a day.
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You can also bring a piece of black cardboard with you and cover the lens opening while using bulb during the 'flight' sections of a shell and removing it during the 'burst'. Can be kinda neat. I think the cool thing about fireworks is you pretty much have at most a half hour worth of time to experiment then a whole year to regret mistakes you made and make plans for next time. Unless of course you live at Disney World where they do fireworks every night!
This is also the beauty of Digital. You can see results as you go and compensate to taste!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Sam Posten 
That was a single 1 second exposure, no photoshop tomfoolery other than levels and cropping to a square. =) If you do a google search for "red white and blue fireworks" it's always the first picture, so it gets quite a few hits a day.
Nice shot, Sam. But wouldn't that actually be "blue, white and red" for you westerners?
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Originally Posted by
Scott Merryfield
That was probably my problem -- using bulb, my shutter speeds were probably always more than a second (more like 2-5 seconds). I found what worked best was to open the shutter when the burst first started and close it when it dissipated. However, for multiple fireworks going off at once, this resulted in a severe over exposure.
Next time, I think I will try auto bracketing my exposures by 2 stops, too, to give me more leeway. I never use that feature on my camera, but this seems like a perfect application for it.
How would auto-bracketing help w/ these timed/moving-objects shots though?
Since you're probably shooting full manual (to be using bulb mode), why not just close down the aperture by a stop or two?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Sam Posten
You can also bring a piece of black cardboard with you and cover the lens opening while using bulb during the 'flight' sections of a shell and removing it during the 'burst'. Can be kinda neat. I think the cool thing about fireworks is you pretty much have at most a half hour worth of time to experiment then a whole year to regret mistakes you made and make plans for next time. Unless of course you live at Disney World where they do fireworks every night!
This is also the beauty of Digital. You can see results as you go and compensate to taste!
That's the old "hat trick" -- not that I ever used it myself.
And yeah, ditto that sentiment about digital.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Scott Merryfield
Actually, I would need to open up the aperture a few stops in order to get a faster shutter speed.
As I thought about it more, I agree that using auto bracketing may not work well with a slow shutter speed and bulb mode. I did play with the aperture between f/8 and f/11, but probably needed to expand my range to larger settings (f/5.6 or larger) to see how that worked, too. At that distance and wide focal range, depth of field shouldn't be much of an issue.
Oh well, there is always next year to try again.
Scott,
Since you were overexposing, you need to either stop down the lens or shorten the exposure (ie. faster shutter speed) -- or do something else to reduce exposure like use an ND filter, if the other options are not desirable or possible.
Opening up the lens will just overexpose even more.
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