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11/12/2003 07:23:41 PM · #1 |
Anyone taken any good shots of fireworks or fire? May not be something of interest for those in California however :(
I've noticed John Setzler's shots in the Photojournalism gallery - very nice captures.
Here are a couple I took from guy Fawkes night (UK):
The composition of the fireworks was not ideal, but the variety of fireworks that all went off at once was what I liked about it.
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11/12/2003 07:31:08 PM · #2 |
I have some fireworks photos from this Summer in this pBase gallery. Considering the limitations of my P+S camera, I thought a few of them came out OK. There's also a photo of the jury-rigged monopod I was able to get into the baseball game to shoot the post-game "pyro-spectacular" ...
This one  was actually shot with Isaac's Fuji A101 (1MP/fixed-focus).
Message edited by author 2003-11-12 19:33:30. |
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11/13/2003 12:02:27 AM · #3 |
Here's a fire photo from a couple months back. Not very creative on the composition, but I love the spark tracks.
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11/13/2003 12:16:18 AM · #4 |
Here's my effort from July 4th this year -
Most of my best ones came from 1 second exposures, with aperture at 2.8 or 3.2. The slow shutter gives the better depiction of the pattern, and a little leeway on timing.
Crowd was such that I was uncomfortable with a tripod, so I handheld the camera while sitting (got there early to get good vantage point). I took over 100 shots, got 8 or so that were worth it - next year, I know what to do - maybe I can get closer to 25%. Maybe use a monopod.
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11/13/2003 12:27:23 AM · #5 |
I shot this one last july 4th. Entered in the challenge and it dod not score well,avg. score 4.987. Placed 74th. of 131 entries.
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11/13/2003 12:29:56 AM · #6 |
I think my longest possible exposure is 1/2 sec :(
My Jury-rigged monopod  made from a cane and a mini-tripod.
wkmen -- You did a nice job of putting those together.
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11/13/2003 12:30:06 AM · #7 |
Here's a shot I took this summer (4th of July) from the roof of my house. I have a few more in
my fireworks folder if you're interested.
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11/13/2003 07:59:06 AM · #8 |
One of the two prints I've sold on DPC has surprisingly enough been this shot:
I also have this one up:
I like the silhouettes of the trees at the bottom since it gives some
sense of scale. These are basically full-frame shots, cropped to 1:1.25. |
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11/13/2003 08:12:47 AM · #9 |
What about this one? I have made it with a fully automatic camera, a HP PhotoSmart 318, on 15th July 2003. Critiques are welcome, I didn't adjust it at all. :-)
Message edited by author 2003-11-13 08:13:20.
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