Fireworks!

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ryanwphotography

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Hey all! I went out the other night with my photography club and took some shots of a local firework show. Had lots of fun and froze, it was only -13C but felt like -20C!
Anyhow let me know what you think and/or what you would do different.
This shot was edited in RAW format in lightroom 4.
I was trying to get some of the buildings and the fireworks in the shot so I know the firework is almost out of frame. It's hard when the fireworks don't all go up in the same spot!
I got three good ones out of about 25. Thats not bad. here is one of them:

Fireworks WF 2013.jpg

Shot at f10 ISO 100 13 seconds in bulb mode.
 
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STM

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"it was only -13C but felt like -20C"

Any time there is a minus sign in front of a number denoting an outside temperature, be it Celsius or Fahrenheit, it is way too cold for me! Now that I am retired from the Army, I can choose NOT to go out in frigid temperatures!

As for the photo, it is very well captured! The exposures are perfect.

Back in the old days of film, I used to lock the shutter open (on B) on my F2 using a locking cable release, place a piece of black card in front of the lens and catch several separate fireworks bursts in one frame. It was always a hit and miss proposition, but the end results could be very interesting. Nowdays with Photoshop, you can do it a lot more easily and with much greater precision!
 
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ryanwphotography

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Thanks for the history! Every time i hear something about the old days of photography, i always think i have it too easy! I did throw my hat over the lens to get a double exposure but the fireworks would just stack on top of each other. And it wouldn't look as nice.
 
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STM

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ryanwphotography said:
Thanks for the history! Every time i hear something about the old days of photography, i always think i have it too easy! I did throw my hat over the lens to get a double exposure but the fireworks would just stack on top of each other. And it wouldn't look as nice.
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Since I still shoot a lot of film those "old days" are still "these days", young whippersnapper! Bwahahahahahahaaaa!
 
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ryanwphotography said:
lol :-D
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My Hasselblad 500CM, which is by far my favorite film camera, though it has a 45 degree prism finder instead of those PITA WLF's, it still has NO METER. Metered finders for the 500 series Blads are outrageous ($400 to $1100 for a PME45, and those are USED) and I would never use them in the first place. Nowadays, the Hasselblad is the kind of a camera you use when you take your time and really set up each shot individually in terms of exposure, etc. Now there were days when it was THE camera used for weddings. You just had assistants constantly handing you more A12 backs. The Blad is really in its element in the studio. It is of course faster than a view camera, which is a real exercise in patience, but still much slower than a 35mm SLR.
 
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