I don't have a tripod though as I work in very crowded environments where it would just be annoying and I would probably leave it in the taxi on the way home anyway.
I have a tripod but I wasn't using it for these pictures. I was just hand-holding That's why the light trails are so wiggly in the second and third pictures.
I was using the camera's idiot-proof "fireworks mode" which is just a combination of f/8 aperture, 2-second exposure and focus locked at infinity.
...note also the clearly visible tree branches. Since I was mostly there to see samantha2074 play with the band, and I'd arrived after most of the spots on the common were already claimed, I was stuck with a worse-than-average spot for seeing the fireworks.
Other people are posting their fireworks photos here (http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21206), and most of them are far more competently taken than mine.
Some American "Fourth of July" fireworks displays have already happened (such as the one in Wilmington, Massachusetts that I photographed here, which was on Sunday), and of course there was also Canada Day on July 1. Expect to see a lot more pictures posted by Americans after tomorrow, though.
I think the qualities you like are the same things that photographers usually take as the hallmark of a messed-up fireworks photograph. But, of course, if your goal is to get the photo to look exactly like every other fireworks photo you see, I suppose you can't expect the result to be terribly original.
In that gallery on DCResource, somebody posted the picture he took with a carefully-set-up tripod and a weird wiggly one his son got with a hand-held camera, and said that though he told his son the hand-held ones would never come out well, he actually wasn't sure which one he liked better.
...Incidentally, you may not even be the first person to use my photos on a quilt; I think my mother said she was going to use one of my New York rooftop pictures.
Nice. No fireworks for me =( but I will get to indulge in that most American of sporting rituals, viz watching the all-Axis semifinal of the World Cup.
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Date: 2006-07-03 11:19 pm (UTC)http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=184&pq-locale=en_US
I don't have a tripod though as I work in very crowded environments where it would just be annoying and I would probably leave it in the taxi on the way home anyway.
Re: Great!
Date: 2006-07-04 05:11 am (UTC)I was using the camera's idiot-proof "fireworks mode" which is just a combination of f/8 aperture, 2-second exposure and focus locked at infinity.
Re: Great!
Date: 2006-07-04 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-04 05:59 am (UTC)Some American "Fourth of July" fireworks displays have already happened (such as the one in Wilmington, Massachusetts that I photographed here, which was on Sunday), and of course there was also Canada Day on July 1. Expect to see a lot more pictures posted by Americans after tomorrow, though.
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Date: 2006-07-04 12:55 pm (UTC)I like
Date: 2006-07-04 01:51 pm (UTC)Re: I like
Date: 2006-07-04 07:46 pm (UTC)Re: I like
Date: 2006-07-05 01:31 pm (UTC)Re: I like
Date: 2006-07-06 02:45 am (UTC)In that gallery on DCResource, somebody posted the picture he took with a carefully-set-up tripod and a weird wiggly one his son got with a hand-held camera, and said that though he told his son the hand-held ones would never come out well, he actually wasn't sure which one he liked better.
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Date: 2006-07-04 01:55 pm (UTC)