Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Open the shutter when you see the rocket going up to the height you expect it to burst, leave it open for between 5 and 15 seconds at f5.6, and hope that something comes out. Actually, from where I was located the time it took from the bang of a rocket being launched to it bursting was around 3 seconds, so I had a fairly decent guideline "one and two and three - press". Leaving it open for longer times (with smaller apertures) means you get too much of the brightest bits and and too much of the individual fireworks overlapping. As firework displays nearly always build up to a climax, you do have a couple of minutes to check a few test shots when you're doing digital.A certain amount of cropping is unavoidable. Cheers Douglas Philippe Amard wrote: > Have you thought of a slide show with Haendel's Fireworks musiK to it. > I like tese shots - how to you anticipate the place they're ging to > pop? or are these crops? > > Congratulations in any case. > Phil...x > > > Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Whitby/Fair_Fireworks/ >> >> A few shots of fireworks at the close of this year's Whitby Regatta (the >> 167th). As usual with fireworks a rather meagre harvest of shots that >> turned out half-ways right and in the frame. >> Hope you like them. >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >