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Fireworks Pics - Warning: Big Pics Ahead



I decided to give a try at taking some pics of this year's city display. Holy cow, I am so stoked I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep until I worked on a few and posted them.

I did not enhance the following photos in any way other than resizing, croping, and adding a little "unsharp mask" to take the blur back out of the resizing.

The first six are from the ground display, then the later ones are from the higher ones. Give them time to load, and I hope you enjoy. smile.gif




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I've got plenty more, but those were the best of the best. Others that are pretty good are slightly cut off, etc.

I hope you all had a great 4th. smile.gif





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Awesome job Web, really great pics, looks like a great display.

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Great pics!  Looks like it was fun!

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Wow, those are fantastic!

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Cool thanks for sharing! smile Hope little L had fun!smile

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Yes, he had a great time. He had been waiting for the 4th to get here for several days. It was a little after midnight when we finally got him showered and in bed. He was still fighting going to bed then, and as expected we have a super grumpy kid this morning. Hopefully he can get a nap at daycare before lunch and then play in the water this afternoon.



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LOL! E was mad because someone set their fireworks off Tuesday night and we would not do ours. The first thing she said yesterday morning before she opened her eyes was- are you gonna light off my fireworks today? If not I am not gettin up!

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those are great, web! smile



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Oooooooo, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Hisssssssssssssssss!!
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At least I got to see some fireworks someplace this year! cry.gif

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Great pics Web!  What ISO did you shoot these at?  I tried shooting pics of the fireworks last year when I first got my digital camera (I set it on a tripod) but I think the shutter speed wasn't set fast enough because most of the pics weren't sharp like your's are. 

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Did you use the kite camera Web? smile.gif
Great pics!

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Yeah Web, how'd you shoot those?

Was that the Cannon Power Shot? Did you have to change the shutter speed? What ISO did you use?

Those are some amazingly clear shots!

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wow!

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Yes, I used my Canon S3-IS.

That camera has a "Fireworks" setting on it all set up and ready to go. JR, you set the top wheel to "SCN" (scene) then you can move right and left to select different settings. One of them is "Fireworks". Others are like "Beach", "Snow", "Night Scene", etc.

So, I don't even know exactly what the ISO, F-stop, etc was. I figured they had that all set better than I could set it manually and it seemed to work really well. The shutter was staying open about 1.5 seconds for each shot.

The next thing was to get the shutter released without wiggling the camera. That camera has a custom setting for the automatic timed shutter release. You can set it to a custom time before it goes off and also how many pics to take when it does. So, I set it for a two second firing delay, and to the maximum setting of 10 consecutive shots. I had it mounted on a tripod, then I would hit the automatic release. Two seconds later, it started taking the 10 pics. With the 1.5 second shutter delay, plus the time it takes the camera to write the image to the memory, I think it was taking a picture about every 3-4 seconds. It would take the 10 pics, then I just had to hit the automatic timer again. I only moved 3-4 times to go back and forth from the ground display to the aerial ones.

I took 178 pictures total. After I deleted the shots that were just black sky or of nothing even slightly interesting, I ended up with about 85 pictures. I'd say I got about 30 shots that I would call "pretty good" to "excellent".





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They came out just beautiful!!

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Thanks. smile.gif

It was fun.



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Great pics. I just love fireworks.

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WebGuy wrote:


Yes, I used my Canon S3-IS.

That camera has a "Fireworks" setting on it all set up and ready to go. JR, you set the top wheel to "SCN" (scene) then you can move right and left to select different settings. One of them is "Fireworks". Others are like "Beach", "Snow", "Night Scene", etc.

So, I don't even know exactly what the ISO, F-stop, etc was. I figured they had that all set better than I could set it manually and it seemed to work really well. The shutter was staying open about 1.5 seconds for each shot.

The next thing was to get the shutter released without wiggling the camera. That camera has a custom setting for the automatic timed shutter release. You can set it to a custom time before it goes off and also how many pics to take when it does. So, I set it for a two second firing delay, and to the maximum setting of 10 consecutive shots. I had it mounted on a tripod, then I would hit the automatic release. Two seconds later, it started taking the 10 pics. With the 1.5 second shutter delay, plus the time it takes the camera to write the image to the memory, I think it was taking a picture about every 3-4 seconds. It would take the 10 pics, then I just had to hit the automatic timer again. I only moved 3-4 times to go back and forth from the ground display to the aerial ones.

I took 178 pictures total. After I deleted the shots that were just black sky or of nothing even slightly interesting, I ended up with about 85 pictures. I'd say I got about 30 shots that I would call "pretty good" to "excellent".




Good grief.  I've had that camera for about five months now and knew NONE of that!!

I might have to hire you to give me a class in using it smile.gif  (I know, I got a manual, but they're sooooooooooooo boring to read)



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WOW!!!  COOL PICS!!!  So pretty!  smile

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