Happy new year!

libeco · Jan 4, 2008

Last year was my first attempt at shooting fireworks with a Fuji S9500. This year I wanted better results. Unofrtunately though I don't think the outcome was better. I had a short time to take pictures as the fog became very dense, making it impossible to see any fireworks at 50 metres away. Oh well, just another way of shooting 60 milion into the sky.

I used a Giottos MT9261 tripod, my new Manfrotto 322RC2 Grip Action Ballhead, my 400D with kitlens. Most pictures are shot at f/8 with a shutterspeed of about 3 seconds.

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libeco · Jan 4, 2008

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Happy new year everybody!

skiboarder72 · Jan 4, 2008

nice shots, i like #9!

Lorielle99 · Jan 5, 2008

# 6 and # 16 are surrel

libeco · Jan 6, 2008

Thanks for the comments!

LaFoto · Jan 6, 2008

They are good photos of fireworks!
And I take it you shot people's private fireworks, nothing official done by any pyro-tech? Large-scale fireworks?
We had two of those in my village on 28 and 29 December and I tried to photograph those, you can see some of the results here and here and also read up on all the mistakes I made on the first day :roll: I took a good deal more than I'm showing here.

libeco · Jan 6, 2008

Yes, most fireworks in Holland are private fireworks. It's always hard to capture. Last year I leaned out of the attic window and held me camera still by leaning it against the window. This time I stood in my backyard with my camera on a tripod. Because there was so many fireworks around I was constantly re-adjusting the angle of the camera...

Pictures 5,6 and 7 in your second topic mentioned look good to me. I was lucky to get the exposure correct right away with f/8, 3 seconds and ISO 100...