Author Topic: Photography... (Read 151604 times)

S8NSSON · « **Reply #180 on:** July 03, 2008, 10:28:58 AM »

I'm using PS CS3, but earlier version have Extract under Filter also.

coLa · « **Reply #181 on:** July 05, 2008, 01:53:37 AM »

you can see the other 5-6 here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hondarn1320/sets/72157605988287973/

not happy with how they came out at all. we parked too far out. my lens couldn't give me the right amount of zoom i needed at this location. tried my best, and came up empty handed. meh.

RiMiNi · « **Reply #182 on:** July 05, 2008, 04:31:31 PM »

hmm looks almost fake, like you made it in photoshop or something, and the link is dead.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #183 on:** July 05, 2008, 06:04:16 PM »

Here's my 4th attempt at fireworks.
I just set my cam to manual, set the fstop to f22, and shutter to 1 second. Only had my monopod so there's a bit of shake noticable in some of the pics.

Spook · « **Reply #184 on:** July 05, 2008, 07:05:03 PM »

I like yours S8N, they look real.

P!nk · « **Reply #185 on:** July 05, 2008, 07:22:43 PM »

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S8NSSON · « **Reply #186 on:** July 05, 2008, 11:15:34 PM »

Speaking of seeing things in these pictures.

When You See It...

loial21 · « **Reply #187 on:** July 06, 2008, 02:21:13 AM »

Where's the ACID!

Nice pics, how about full motion?

jitspoe · « **Reply #188 on:** July 06, 2008, 09:54:12 AM »

Really old pic with my first digital camera, but I haven't photographed fireworks recently.

KnacK · « **Reply #189 on:** July 06, 2008, 10:49:53 AM »

OT:

The city of Houston's fireworks were so large that the smoke showed up on radar during the weather last night.

coLa · « **Reply #190 on:** July 06, 2008, 12:43:46 PM »

looking over my pics again, and they don't even look like fireworks. lmfao. i guess i should have set the shutterspeed longer. it was my first time using my DSLR to try and take those pics. didn't know what i needed to do. oh wellz. there is always new years.

Knack: that's pretty crazy.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #191 on:** July 06, 2008, 01:26:50 PM »

i've shot fireworks a few times.
I really wasn't even excited about shooting them this year because i'm so psyched on getting my Canon 40D that I don't even want to shoot the XTI anymore.

I used my Tamron 17-50 f2.8 for this shoot as I was fairly close.

What I found works best is...
1) tripod is a must or your firework trails look like swimming sperm.
2) shoot in manual (M) mode so you control both fstop and shutter
3) lowest ISO you got (ISO100 for me)
4) low fstop (high number). somewhere between f11 and f22 seems right depending on shutter speed.
5) low shutter speed. 1/2 to 1 second seems good. the longer the shutter, the longer the trails, the higher the fstop (lower number).
6) manual focus. I set mine to infinity for this shoot, but when I changed zoom it blurred some of the images out. manually focusing on a few fireworks should get you sharp.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #192 on:** July 06, 2008, 03:35:51 PM »

Took these today...low light...could only manage around 1/50 sec shutter.

y00tz · « **Reply #193 on:** July 06, 2008, 06:10:13 PM »

coLa:

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DrRickDaglessMD · « **Reply #194 on:** July 06, 2008, 08:36:20 PM »

fantastic photo s8n!

If only we had such dramatic wildlife in the grim UK north...

- Dagless

note: there's lots of cool wildlife here, but photographing most of it means sitting in a plastic mac in a hut in the woods for an entire day, and frankly I'm just not that dedicated.

coLa · « **Reply #195 on:** July 06, 2008, 09:22:26 PM »

Quote from: y00tz on July 06, 2008, 06:10:13 PM

coLa:

i know. when i post the link in here it changes. instead of honda m n1320 (without spaces) it changes to hondarn1320. so just change that and it should work.

coLa · « **Reply #196 on:** July 07, 2008, 12:02:46 AM »

KnacK · « **Reply #197 on:** July 07, 2008, 04:57:01 AM »

* KnacK will have to work on taking pics of his road runners.....

coLa · « **Reply #198 on:** July 07, 2008, 07:51:49 AM »

KnacK · « **Reply #199 on:** July 07, 2008, 08:58:22 AM »

coLa,

I like what you've done to the pics, but I don't know... something isn't right. Maybe the framing of the content is bothering me?

* KnacK shrugs