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| Nightly fireworks, from our hotel room.
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| I purposely shot these handheld, without a tripod or,
indeed, without any particular effort to keep steady. Bulb, ISO 100,
at f13
(for the most part, some at f16) I don't think I'll ever shoot fireworks any other way
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| They seem to capture the dreamy nature of fireworks just
right, and some shots even seem like distant galaxies. |
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| Absolutely no post processing, nor cropping, just resized to
JPG for the web. When I print I'll do some image enhancement, but I
think these come out good right from the box. |
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| Lessons Learned: |
There's lots of ways to shoot fireworks, but if you can get
close enough (like we were) I think I'd shoot handheld every time.
Note that if you do this with the D30/60 you might want to turn off long
exposure noise reduction: I did for all these images. It keeps the
camera from applying an equal amount of time to post process (I'd only use
long exposure noise off for really long exposures, like minutes). |
Disneyland '02