Cool shot. Was the camera set to "panorama" for that? Ugh, just kidding
:-)
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Reese" <pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:00 AM
Subject: [OM] Las Vegas New Year's Fireworks
| Las Vegas put on a $500,000 fireworks show for New Years. Awesome! Susie
| and I dragged out 4 tripods and shot it (with security clearance) from
| the upper deck of McCarran International Airport. The following shot is
| her's:
|
| http://home.earthlink.net/~pcacala/VegasFireworks.jpg
|
| She was using an OM-4T with 35mm f/2 Zuiko at f/8 in Auto w/ cable
| release, using Kodak Royal Gold 100. The lens was fitted with a clamp
| on, open top gel filter holder. It had a black card in it that she would
| carefully lift periodically for 1 to 2 sec. to capture different bursts.
| She would listen for the shutter to close (three cheers for OTF
| metering!) and advance the film manually. No messing around with double
| exposures the mechanical way. Lucky for us we did that technique with
| one of the cameras, since the show was predominantly fountain looking
| fireworks, rather than mushrooming bursts.
|
| I worked the other three rigs, including:
| Bronica ETRSi w/ 50mm @ f/8 and a 135W back (for panoramic), Portra 100T
|
| OM-2S w/ 24mm f/2.8 MC at f/8 or f/11, w/ Winder 2 & Remote Cord, Provia
| F (incl. some early shots with half a ND 0.9 filter in a gel filter
| holder)
| OM-2S w/ 300mm f/4.5 MC at f/8 or f/11, w/ Winder 2 & Remote Cord,
| Portra 100T
|
| Probably ranks as one of the most fun shoots of my life. The black card
| technique was my own invention, flawlessly executed by Susie, despite
| sticking her with the rickety Kalimar tripod :-(
|
| Gary Reese
| Las Vegas, NV
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