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4th of July fireworks
julieo
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A beautiful night for fireworks and family!
Sony A7ii, 24-70 Zeiss, F11, 125 ISO. Shutter times ranging from 5 to 15 seconds.
On a couple of the images I held the black of my phone against lens in between burst.
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I did a wedding a while back, fireworks but not big star bursts, like Roman Candles.
Handheld, ISO 2000, f3.5, 50th, using an Lowell ID tungsten light on couple. I did try flash, but it was a bit 'too' much as I wanted to keep guests in front pretty darkish with couple really main subject, plus I think it added to the mood.
Images are not zoomed in. Taken close up intentionally. Wanted the whole screen filled with bursts
Whoa!!
What happened to my pics?
I don't know what you are looking at, but I can see all of your pics mate. Restart your browser/clear cache or reboot system in that order.
I just refreshed the Forum and went to this thread and they are all in there.
Trev,
I refreshed it three times and they still were not there...Odd...I even went into Edit, and they were not there as well.
I can still see them there mate.
Still don't see them in my post, but they are in yours Trev
(Top of the 1st image in your edit dialogue box)
@Skipperlange
You are right, I've in the past put the shutter on 'Bulb', and sat there with a piece of black card/cloth to put over the front of the lens and take away when there is action, and sometimes it's been 3-4 minutes, capturing absolutely loads of stuff.
I prefer the 'base' ISO (100 or 200 on some Nikons) f8.0, lens set to 'Infinity' or if there is any architectural buildings near where the fireworks are, focus on those, but generally Infinity, or if you are really pedantic, wait for the first burst, and with lens on Auto, focus, then switch the button to manual and leave it.
There are a few approaches but whatever works for you.
Oh, in post-processing, to get rid of a lot of smoke, if you have Photoshop, duplicate the background layer, and change the blend mode to 'Overlay or try Soft Light/Hard Light/Vivid Light, and maybe Layer Opacity to around 50%, experiment, it really cleans up/removes a lot of the smoke haze while boosting the fireworks brightness/colour.
Then put a mask on that layer and paint with black brush to remove unwanted sections like buildings/water.
In that image above that shot I posted had bucket loads of smoke wafting around and I did that little trick and it removed 80% of smoke while boosting saturation/brightness of the actual fireworks.