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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Very nice. Can I ask how long were the exposures. In my sole attempt I found there to be a trade off between long trails and excess background haze. Three to five seconds seemed to be best.
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In this case all the exposures were very short. I was using the 50mm at f/2.8 and f/2.2 at ISO 2500 and 3200. Exposure times were faster than 1/30th sec and probably up to 160th/sec I think. Every exposure was a bracket of +/- 2 stops, sometimes only one stop.
For fireworks I would ordinarily do longer exposures on a tripod. In this situation the event was a standing event so tripod wasn't going to be tall enough. At first I was disappointing and didn't hold much hope of good pics. Many of the shots were with the camera being held above my head.
As it happens, I think the short exposures worked well in this situation. I looked at some taken by The West newspaper which were typical longer exposures on a tripod and didn't like them so much, the trailing didn't work well for this event. Chance
So it wasn't all good, but I did enjoy it and nabbed some great pics of the stage & fireworks with the nifty 50 f/1.4 @ f/2.8.
