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Published: 2005-08-15 01:53:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2137; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 107
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Last week was the Coast Guard Fest in Grand Haven Michigan. It's a big festival to honor the U.S. Coast Guard with a carnival, parades, tents selling all kinds of tourist stuff, tours of ships and at the end, a big fireworks display. There was a ton of people there and I had a lot of fun.This is a picture of the fireworks. They shoot them off in front of this hill across of the Grand River and every year a few fires pop up from the fireworks landing on the hill. But this year the fire was really big and out of hand. A good 60% of the hill was on fire and they had all kinds of fire fighting boats and trucks trying to put it out. Lots of fun.
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Taken with my Canon Powershot S2 IS. Slight curves and noise reduction in photoshop.
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I love how the traffic light is cutting up the fireworks... with so many pictures of fireworks, it's tough to find a way to break it apart into something interesting.
Including the people helped too; how much did you have to read up on fireworks exposure (if at all) before doing this? I had to read an article before I could take pictures of fireworks or lightning.
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Thanks for the comments
As for research, I've never done any specific research about night/fireworks/lightning photography. I experimented around to find a good exposure for this, and as you can see from the EXIF data, it was an 8th of a second, and that seemed to be right to get all the foreground elements.
Mostly I just shot a lot and found some good settings to get the exposure right
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Good to know; maybe I gave that article too much credit.
I think it said to use a particular shutter speed; if you go too fast, you just get tiny flecks of light and you don't capture the "streak" effect or glow of fireworks... but, if you take too long, it'll be all blurry, of course.
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Yeah, it's all just a game of playing with the exposure till you find a good mix that works and gives you what you want.
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haha! I was there, too... they didn't even get the fires out until 1:30PM the next day- that's the way I heard it, at least.
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that pic is awesome, it almost doesn't look real. i was expecting it to be in photomanip when i saw the preview. up close it kinda looks like a shot from a film. great photo!
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are the traffic lights supposed to be in te picture or was that the only place you could take the shot? it's a cool photo anyway.
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wow it looks like somethings on fire. that has the be the coolest fire work picture i've ever seen!
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Thanks for the comments, and yes, most of the hill they were shooting them off over was on fire. It was pretty cool.
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Great exposure and framing
I hope to head to the Grand Haven beach sometime soon
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Thanks. And go there if you can, there's some great beaches out there. It's very picturesque.
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You mean like [link] and [link] ?
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Haha, yes, I guess I forgot about that one picture of the pier. I took one similar to it, but during the day and more centered, but I like you photo better.
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Thanks, I was surprised this one came out like it did.
And thanks for the fav too.
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i really like how well the foreground is lit and the stroy of the fire is great. nice photojouralism work...
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thanks, this is sorta my first photojournalism shot so I'm really glad you like it.
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Thanks for the comment and the fav, much appreciated.
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