Fireworks Pics

Following up to Paul Saunders

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http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

For the benefit of those who won't see this link hidden in the Brecons
thread.

interesting effects!
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In article <[email hidden]>, pvs1
@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk says...

Quoted message said:

The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

For the benefit of those who won't see this link hidden in the Brecons
thread.

Nice work. I was wondering what to do tonight!

Though I think I detected the odd bit of camera shake :-)

how did you stop them burning out on the bulb exposure? ISO 100 stopped
right down?

--
Darren

Paul Saunders said:

The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

For the benefit of those who won't see this link hidden in the Brecons
thread.

hehehe, funny things happen when you click <retrieve new articles> :-)

ho hum!
;-)

SteveO

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Paul Saunders said:

The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

some really cool shots in there!

SteveO

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Darren G said:

Nice work. I was wondering what to do tonight!

Erm, you missed it, it was last night! Now you'll have to wait another
year... :-)

Quoted message said:

Though I think I detected the odd bit of camera shake :-)

You reckon?

I've tried it both ways in the past. A tripod gives excellent results
of course (of the more traditional variety), but it limits your response
time dramatically. Hand holding allows swinging around quickly to grab
shots you'd otherwise miss, and of course produces more arty effects,
especially if you purposely move the camera around during the exposure.
In some shots I moved the camera to different parts of the sky to
capture multiple rocket blasts in the same shot.

Quoted message said:

how did you stop them burning out on the bulb exposure? ISO 100
stopped right down?

Yep, ISO 100. Most of the early shots were taken at f11, occasionally
f16. The main display needed f22-f36, since they were much brighter and
I was pretty close, right outside the ground. The short range shots in
my garden needed to be stopped right down too.

Fortunately, although the exposures were often long, the fireworks
usually weren't, and tended not to be stationary. The ones that
produced a shower from the ground were the biggest problem. If you look
at the second shot of that type, you may notice that the shower seems to
be coming from multiple ground sources. Of course, there was only one
source, but I moved the camera slowly left and right to stop the base
burning out.

Paul
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SteveO said:

some really cool shots in there!

Thanks. I was surprised and impressed too. I have no idea how some of
them turned out the way they did. I particularly like the ones that
look like deep space nebulae or star clusters, they aren't that
disimilar to some astronomical photos I've seen.

Paul
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Paul Saunders said:

The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

For the benefit of those who won't see this link hidden in the Brecons
thread.

V. nice indeed! Thanks for the link.

Best wishes,
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The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

For the benefit of those who won't see this link hidden in the Brecons
thread.

Paul
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Great pics, but is it not a tad off topic?

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The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

An amazing set of photos, particularly as they are hand-held on a B setting.
Obviously not cold enough to get the shakes!

--
sandy saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk

'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still
brings the same excitement'

Stuart said:

Great pics, but is it not a tad off topic?

Of course, in the obligatory time-honoured urw tradition of thread
drift. It was Phil's fault, he was the first to mention fireworks!
Blame Phil. ;-)

I just started a new thread in case anyone missed the drift. You are of
course quite entitled to drift this thread back to walking, if you
can...

I did do quite a bit of walking around my garden whilst taking these
shots! Perhaps I should have worn a pedometer to find out how far I
walked?

Paul
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Paul Saunders said:

Of course, in the obligatory time-honoured urw tradition of thread
drift.

Thread drift? No mention of anything but fireworks - yet 🙂

I particularly like the one of the sparkler.

Simon Caldwell said:

Thread drift? No mention of anything but fireworks - yet 🙂

The drift started in another thread, so I restarted it here.

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I particularly like the one of the sparkler.

Are you alluding to my brother acting as a rocket launcher, or perhaps
the one above it? There is no sparkler.

Paul
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The best of last night's marathon photo session;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/misc/fireworks/fireworks.html

An amazing set of photos, particularly as they are hand-held on a B

setting.

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Obviously not cold enough to get the shakes!

Or may be not, while assessing casualties in a hill or mountain environment
(taking up Paul's challenge here to drift the thread back to walking) "The
Shakes" or shivering is a good sign, it indicates that the casualty is not
yet hypothermic!

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Quoted message said:

Stuart said:

Great pics, but is it not a tad off topic?

Of course, in the obligatory time-honoured urw tradition of thread
drift. It was Phil's fault, he was the first to mention fireworks!
Blame Phil. ;-)

I just started a new thread in case anyone missed the drift. You are of
course quite entitled to drift this thread back to walking, if you
can...

I did do quite a bit of walking around my garden whilst taking these
shots! Perhaps I should have worn a pedometer to find out how far I
walked?

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk

What is the "B" setting, my camera doesn't seem to posses one! Does it allow
the shutter to be held open until the firework is finnished?

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Stuart said:

What is the "B" setting, my camera doesn't seem to posses one!

Compacts don't. SLRs do.

Quoted message said:

Does
it allow the shutter to be held open until the firework is finnished?

Yep. You can hold it open for as long as you like, hours if you want.

Normally this is done on a tripod and you fire the shutter with a cable
release. This prevents the camera shake that you'd get if you pressed
the button on the camera. You can either keep the cable release pressed
manually and let go at the appropriate time, or lock it for really long
exposures. Simply start your stopwatch when you open the shutter, lock
the cable release, then go back to your tent and make a cup of tea while
you wait for the exposure to finish.

In my case, since I was taking the shots handheld there was no need to
use a cable release. Camera shake was inevitable but that just added to
the artiness of the photos. Since I was photographing transient bursts
of light, the length of the exposures were largely irrelevant, it was
just a matter of keeping the shutter open long enough to capture as much
as I wanted. I experimented with opening the shutter anywhere from a
split second (for close bright fireworks) to perhaps 20 seconds or more
(when there was very little happening in the sky). Around ten or so
frames came out completely black, where I failed to capture anything.

Paul
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Following up to Stuart

Quoted message said:

What is the "B" setting, my camera doesn't seem to posses one! Does it allow
the shutter to be held open until the firework is finnished?

that's what it does on mine.
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Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Following up to Stuart

Quoted message said:

"The
Shakes" or shivering is a good sign, it indicates that the casualty is not
yet hypothermic!

or dead.
--
Mike Reid
Wasdale-Thames path-London-photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

In article <[email hidden]>, pvs1
@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk says...

Quoted message said:

Darren G said:

Nice work. I was wondering what to do tonight!

Erm, you missed it, it was last night! Now you'll have to wait another
year... :-)

in that case I must just have moved house to Iraq without realising, as
it's another war zone around here tonight.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Though I think I detected the odd bit of camera shake :-)

You reckon?

I've tried it both ways in the past. A tripod gives excellent results
of course (of the more traditional variety), but it limits your response
time dramatically. Hand holding allows swinging around quickly to grab
shots you'd otherwise miss, and of course produces more arty effects,
especially if you purposely move the camera around during the exposure.
In some shots I moved the camera to different parts of the sky to
capture multiple rocket blasts in the same shot.

It works! Gives far more interesting results than the tripod approach.

--
Darren

Darren G said:

Quoted message said:

Erm, you missed it, it was last night! Now you'll have to wait
another year... :-)

in that case I must just have moved house to Iraq without realising,
as it's another war zone around here tonight.

Good for you. There's a few around here right now, but nothing like the
sheer quantity of last night, so there'd be sparse pickings around here
if I fancied doing it again. I had enough last night though, so I'm
relaxing tonight.

Is there enough quantity for you there? Visible rocket bursts from your
home? That was my staple diet last night.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Hand holding allows swinging
around quickly to grab shots you'd otherwise miss, and of course
produces more arty effects,

Quoted message said:

It works! Gives far more interesting results than the tripod
approach.

So you've tried it then? Keep at it. Hope to see your results later.

Paul
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