Camera Talk

Independence day celebration in the USA....

4th of July - 01 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/89853469@N00/, on Flickr

The ghost of th efireworks that can be seen in the 2nd one kinda bugged me.... any idea where could this be from?
Tamron 24-70/2.8 - Pentax KX

I hate fireworks... I hope it ends soon.... Nice pictures but not all of us recovered.

About the ghost - if you mean the ellipse to the right and down of the fireworks light, it looks like flare. Nice captures both!

I'll toss in a few from one of the local exhibitions, more here: Independence Day 2015 Album


D71_8907 by Robert Brazile, on Flickr


D71_8960 by Robert Brazile, on Flickr


D71_8971 by Robert Brazile, on Flickr


D71_8923 by Robert Brazile, on Flickr

Robert

Those are really nice!
I love #2

How long did you expose? 1/2 or 1 s?

Thanks! That particular one was 5 and a half seconds. I used a cable release and mostly timed the shutter open time to capture the parts I wanted of the burst. As a result, the shutter open times varied from less than a second all the way to 5-6 seconds. That one was longer because I was trying to capture a multi-burst pattern over a few seconds. Most were in the 2-3 second range.

I left in the EXIF data, so the shutter times appear on the Flickr pages for any you're curious about.

Robert

I wasn't close enough to get any detailed pictures on the night of Canada's national day, July 1st. Instead, I was perched about two miles west of the fireworks. This was taken with the Fuji X100 on the top rail of a chain-link fence, with its shutter held open for ten seconds.
(I like how the street light mimicked the fireworks.)

Ha -- looks like a very peculiar streetlight itself. The panoramic format works well here, with all the leading lines taking you to the "streetlights".

Robert

Great shots all. I though will be real happy when this is all over.

i just read about a Redneck ,who ,slightly intoxicated ,decided it to balance a fire works mortar tube on his head fill it with gun powder and launch a fireworks shell.at this point Physics decides to make an apperance as the mortar apparently had a weak or non-existent plug.
blew his mind.and vaporised his head.