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Challenge: Fireworks IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
Date: Jan 1, 2011
Aperture: f/1.2
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/1600
Date Uploaded: Jan 1, 2011

[Jan. 8th, 2011 01:08:29 PM]

Certainly not typical camera settings for a fireworks shot, but what can you do when you are shooting handheld and they make a huge fuss over taking your tripod in Disneyland (on that day anyway)? Nothing ... you just pull out your 85mm, back up as much as possible, set your aperture to 1.2 and start snapping away and hope that you will get just good enough depth of field for your foreground too so that the DPC community approves it :) The king of all lenses, Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 II USM!!!

p.s. Looking at my shutter speed, it is apparent that I had some room to increase my depth of field for this, but since I was in aperture priority mode and things were happening fast, I didn't want to touch my camera setting especially after seeing that a lot of my other shots had shutter speeds barely faster than 1/125 while shooting handheld.

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 69
Avg (all users): 6.7706
Avg (commenters): 7.9091
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Views since voting: 2194
Views during voting: 487
Votes: 231
Comments: 12
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 01/09/2011 04:23:58 AM
Originally posted by ScooterMcNutty:
unless you over edit it..... and that is the case here....


Beautiful is in the eye of the beholder. This picture is amazing in all aspects.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/08/2011 03:12:12 AM
Certainly dynamic, and smokey
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 01/07/2011 06:39:47 PM
Amazing colors! The wonderful, well-lit foreground helps too.
My pick for Blue in this challenge.
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 01/07/2011 09:46:08 AM
Great shot. Deserving of a ribbon for sure.
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 01/06/2011 12:52:04 AM
WOW
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 01/05/2011 04:34:35 AM
I can't figure out how this was created but looks so perfect. I keep staring at it. Fantastic!
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 01/03/2011 08:38:29 PM
unless you over edit it..... and that is the case here....
 01/03/2011 11:38:31 AM
Excellent composition and the colors are fantastic. Top 3 for me.
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 01/02/2011 05:14:23 PM
Fabulous!
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 01/02/2011 11:08:07 AM
Good shot,should do well in this challenge.
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 01/02/2011 08:12:29 AM
castle looks a bit grainy, either overprocessed or an attempt to recover the exposure otherwise this is a fantastic shot
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 01/02/2011 12:36:03 AM
Top 3
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