Canberra fireworks 2004

[christiand]

Hi all,

here are a few photos of last year's fireworks:

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=88

Cheers
CD

[Greg B]

They're great christiand, well done.

[Matt. K]

Nice! You have isolated the bursts and made them look like flowers!

[tsanglabs]

Nice shots, mostly better than my attempts last night.

What settings did you use? How far away were you located from the action?

[christiand]

Hi tsanglabs,

where are your photos ?

the D70 settings were:

manual focus (set to infinity)
aperture f11
exposure 2-3 seconds
focal length 18mm
RAW (NEF) mode

no postprocessing other than resizing for Web.

distance to "launching pad" perhaps 100m
altitude of bursts I don't know

I put the D70 on a tripod and timed the shots so that
a burst from a launched rocket would occur while the shutter was open.

Cheers
CD

[tsanglabs]

I'm in brisbane at the moment, and I took about 200+ photos so having a bit of trouble organising since i'm away from my workstation and only have my struggling laptop.

I think my problem was distance, at I was about 1.5 km away, while you used a 18mm I was at mostly 70-80mm.

Will post some when I get a chance.

[Manta]

the D70 settings were:

manual focus (set to infinity)
aperture f11
exposure 2-3 seconds
focal length 18mm
RAW (NEF) mode

Great shots Christian. Could I ask what ISO and WB settings you used?

Simon

[christiand]

Hi Manta,

ISO was 200
WB was auto

regards
CD

[Manta]

Thanks.

[tsanglabs]

I have posted links to the images in the Brisbane forum, which is where I originally shot them.

[christiand]

I updated the link to the firework pictures.

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=54

Cheers
CD