Photo Post! 4th of July Boston, Part 2
And, as promised, part 2.
#13. I love love love love palm tree fireworks. So graceful and pretty! *squee* I just wish I'd done a better job with the photo - overexposed and corrected in Photoshop, but still not great.
#14. Ah, so fun. I like this one. Again, I had to tweak the overexposure in Photoshop, alas.
#15. I thought this was crap at first. Nearly deleted it and didn't post it. But then I corrected some of the overexposure problems in Photoshop, and I started liking it a little better - all the little curly raindrops of light.
#16. This one? Hands-down awesome. I finally nailed the exposure, framed it well, and got great timing (I've got a few where I missed the timing altogether. Ooops.).
#17. Good like the one before, but weaker. The 'works aren't as striking, and there's too much smoke. A little is okay, but the wind hadn't cleared this out well enough yet.
#18. Pretty nice, and a good change from the large 'works above. They're like a bunch of little chrysanthemums! The exposure is a little too high, but I left it as is.
#19. The timing was a little off on this one, as well as the exposure. Still, not too awful.
#20. This one is sweet. Or would be, if I'd managed to get this exposure right. Most of my exposures were 1.5-2.5 s with an f-stop of 1.4 or 2 - the lens aperture was as open as it would go. I think to correct for the ambient city light, I needed to dial the f-stop back to a smaller aperture and keep the exposure length the same. I was using my Canon Rebel 2000 SLR, a Tamron 28-300mm macro telephoto lens, a tripod, a remote control, and 200-speed Kodak film. Tweaked this one in Photoshop, too.
#21. This photo I'm letting stand uncorrected. I actually tried fixing the brightness and contrast in Photoshop, but ultimately decided I couldn't really truly save it. I like the colors, framing, and arrangement, though, which makes my bungling the exposure even more of a shame.
#22. Very cool! Again, I got that faboo trifecta of exposure, timing, and framing: so tough for fireworks.
#23. Unfortunately, my last one is again an unimpressive one: good exposure and timing, but lousy framing. Oh well. The difficulty with photographing fireworks is that, as I am rarely at more than one show a year, it is a very long time to be working on the learning curve, especially when this venue was so much larger and different than any place I've shot before.
The End!
#13. I love love love love palm tree fireworks. So graceful and pretty! *squee* I just wish I'd done a better job with the photo - overexposed and corrected in Photoshop, but still not great.
#14. Ah, so fun. I like this one. Again, I had to tweak the overexposure in Photoshop, alas.
#15. I thought this was crap at first. Nearly deleted it and didn't post it. But then I corrected some of the overexposure problems in Photoshop, and I started liking it a little better - all the little curly raindrops of light.
#16. This one? Hands-down awesome. I finally nailed the exposure, framed it well, and got great timing (I've got a few where I missed the timing altogether. Ooops.).
#17. Good like the one before, but weaker. The 'works aren't as striking, and there's too much smoke. A little is okay, but the wind hadn't cleared this out well enough yet.
#18. Pretty nice, and a good change from the large 'works above. They're like a bunch of little chrysanthemums! The exposure is a little too high, but I left it as is.
#19. The timing was a little off on this one, as well as the exposure. Still, not too awful.
#20. This one is sweet. Or would be, if I'd managed to get this exposure right. Most of my exposures were 1.5-2.5 s with an f-stop of 1.4 or 2 - the lens aperture was as open as it would go. I think to correct for the ambient city light, I needed to dial the f-stop back to a smaller aperture and keep the exposure length the same. I was using my Canon Rebel 2000 SLR, a Tamron 28-300mm macro telephoto lens, a tripod, a remote control, and 200-speed Kodak film. Tweaked this one in Photoshop, too.
#21. This photo I'm letting stand uncorrected. I actually tried fixing the brightness and contrast in Photoshop, but ultimately decided I couldn't really truly save it. I like the colors, framing, and arrangement, though, which makes my bungling the exposure even more of a shame.
#22. Very cool! Again, I got that faboo trifecta of exposure, timing, and framing: so tough for fireworks.
#23. Unfortunately, my last one is again an unimpressive one: good exposure and timing, but lousy framing. Oh well. The difficulty with photographing fireworks is that, as I am rarely at more than one show a year, it is a very long time to be working on the learning curve, especially when this venue was so much larger and different than any place I've shot before.
The End!