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08/16/2006 11:33:51 PM · #1 |
Hmmm... I was late Saturday arriving at a fireworks festival. The fireworks had just started as I drove in. No time to walk to a good spot or to set up a tripod. Heck, the fireworks would have been over by the time I could have gotten completely ready. Instead, I grabbed my camera and stepped over to a car and put the camera on the roof of the car and this is what I got:
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What I think is interesting ... is that the REFLECTIONS coming from the roof of the car give better color than the fireworks themselves.
Next time... I'm just gonna point my camera at the roof of a car! :-)
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08/16/2006 11:45:55 PM · #2 |
That's not "better color" per se, it's the fact that the reflections are a couple stops darker than the "originals" so the center part is not blown out... Stop down a stop or two and you'll get that in the sky, at the expense of the foreground I imagine.
R.
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08/16/2006 11:57:04 PM · #3 |
Yeah, I didn't have much time to think about exposure or anything. I quickly set the camera to full manual (bulb exposure, f/9, manual focus) and started shooting. I was just happy to get "something" before the fireworks stopped. :-)
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08/16/2006 11:59:48 PM · #4 |
That explains it; at ISO 100, f/11 or f/16 is usually best for bulb exposure fireworks; I've even seen f/22 work on some of them...
R.
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