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Canberra fireworks 2004

Postby christiand on Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:08 am

Hi all,

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

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

Cheers
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Postby Greg B on Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:15 pm

They're great christiand, well done.
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Postby Matt. K on Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:49 pm

Nice! You have isolated the bursts and made them look like flowers!
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Postby tsanglabs on Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:59 pm

Nice shots, mostly better than my attempts last night.

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

Postby christiand on Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:18 pm

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.

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Postby tsanglabs on Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:43 pm

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.
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Re: how far away ...

Postby Manta on Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:21 pm

christiand wrote: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?

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Postby christiand on Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:27 pm

Hi Manta,

ISO was 200
WB was auto

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Postby Manta on Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:33 pm

Thanks. :)
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Postby tsanglabs on Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:35 pm

I have posted links to the images in the Brisbane forum, which is where I originally shot them.
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Postby christiand on Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:03 pm

I updated the link to the firework pictures.

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

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