Fireworks photos - anyone else have any?

[canyonphile]

I decided to try my luck at shooting fireworks last night. We are lucky that the view from our top deck is absolutely perfect for viewing them.

I shot over 45 pictures, and by the time the show was over, I was starting to get the hang of it :haha:.

Anyway, here are some of the better ones I posted to my blog (so I could direct link them).

Camera: D40. Lens 55-200, ISO 200. f/5.6, BULB shutter with remote, tripod mount, both manual and auto focus.

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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QnXdFSKiAiU/ThNvOzUfuFI/AAAAAAAALbw/mhUJf44nNok/s800/DSC_0085.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xmJGxPr5u5I/ThNvPM6BjAI/AAAAAAAALb0/YV_tzzo--W8/s800/DSC_0096.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pxlqhYUpF_w/ThNvPjuNcOI/AAAAAAAALb4/GP3LumdiimE/s800/DSC_0101.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sKeLc3Oblik/ThNvQnW5iII/AAAAAAAALb8/1mxRVrSqRUk/s800/DSC_0103.jpg

Please feel free to share any photos you've shot of fireworks, recent or not. They are so dramatic and beautiful, and are always fun to see, I think :popcorn:.

[CarpeyBiggs]

nice work! looks like you dialed the shutter speed pretty well. that always seems to be hardest part of fireworks.

i only had a camera phone last night, maybe i'll post up some mayhem. now that utah allows aerial fireworks, the place was crazy! really wish i had gone up in the foothills and taken a huge composite of the valley. would've been wild.

[dmMatrix]

Great Shots, I love seeing photos like this. From what I can tell it takes some mad skill to pull of good shots of fireworks. AWESOME!!!

If I can budge the camera from my mother in law I will see if I can post some from Last Friday in Logan, Utah. I missed them in Brigham City last night because I had to work :angryfire:


nice work! looks like you dialed the shutter speed pretty well. that always seems to be hardest part of fireworks.

i only had a camera phone last night, maybe i'll post up some mayhem. now that utah allows aerial fireworks, the place was crazy! really wish i had gone up in the foothills and taken a huge composite of the valley. would've been wild.

On my way home from work last night around 11:30 or so people were still lighting them off all over the valley. We were hearing pops going off until around 1:30 when we finally went to sleep. The whole state is freaking out :nod:

[bowjunkie]

Here's one of mine !!! 45939

[ibenick]

really wish i had gone up in the foothills and taken a huge composite of the valley. would've been wild. Same thought crossed my mind. That would be an awesome composite.

[canyonphile]

Thanks Carpey and Ryan - I was pleased that I had more than just a couple that turned out pretty well. I've really never had the occasion to try and photograph them until this year.

Having a wide composite view of fireworks down in the valley would have been awesome; I can actually imagine what that might look like! Now you can plan for that next year :mrgreen:.

Utah's law allowing fireworks is a recent change, then? So...you guys haven't had public firework displays before?

Nice pic, Bowjunkie - it looks like the rocket trails are twisted together like a vine.

[Deadeye008]

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150685490685316
Here's a time lapse I did of the fireworks we went to. 266 frames.

[jbdavies]

Those are great!

[accadacca]

Utah's law allowing fireworks is a recent change, then? So...you guys haven't had public firework displays before?
The aerial fireworks are now allowed: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=16080860 and yep there were problems: Fireworks set home on fire in Daybreak, UT (http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?56747-Fireworks-set-home-on-fire-in-Daybreak-UT)

[bowjunkie]

Nice pic, Bowjunkie - it looks like the rocket trails are twisted together like a vine.

thanks !!

[Pelon1]

Gotta try and get some on the 24th!! Those are sweet:nod:

[dmMatrix]

Utah's law allowing fireworks is a recent change, then? So...you guys haven't had public firework displays before?


It is a recent change yes, but almost every city in the state has always done their big areal displays. But civilians just couldn't do their own til now.

[gringorio]

Great shots! Here's my best taken in Lake Havasu City, AZ on the 4th:46226
copyright: g. joder 2011

[americanhero]

Wow, great shots so far. :2thumbs:
One of mine I took last year.
SUNY Buffalo, Lake LaSalle.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4801783413_9784534654_z.jpg