yay fireworks

[mmcirvin]

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Great!

[timchuma.livejournal.com]

I would like to try that one day, I read this page on it once:
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.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: Great!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...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.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

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.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

The third one is nicely dramatic.

I like

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

Request permission to lift photos to print on fabric for my quilting endevours, Sir!

[tomscud.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: I like

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead!

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[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

Danke sir! I like these far better than the standard, usual photos I always see. These have certain character and colors I like very much.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

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.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...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.