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Subject: [OM] Re: Advice on shooting a firework display
From: "Martyn Smoothy" <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:52:40 -0000
If anyone's interested some of the pics of the Friday evening firework
display are posted here - http://archaeoimages.com/Fireworks-01/index.html
All taken with an e-1 & 14-54, ISO 800, shutter speeds from 1/20 to 1/40 &
aperture from f6.3 to f5. I think the best combination I used was 1/30 at
f5, but the display didn't last long enough to try out as many settings as
I'd have liked... Martyn


-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jeff Keller
Sent: 08 December 2006 16:00
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Advice on shooting a firework display



I also found it useful. I've shot fireworks with Velvia at f5.6 with
several second exposures and had good results. Seeing shorter duration
exposures is quite useful.
-jeff

On 12/8/06, Martyn Smoothy <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the advice. Obviously worked, there's some good stuff in the
> gallery.
>
> Regards - Martyn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Mike Lees
> Sent: 07 December 2006 17:16
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Advice on shooting a firework display
>
>
>
> Martyn,
>
> I've been to a couple of firework displays in the past few months and I
> think I took some reasonable pictures.
>
> http://photo.whizzkid.co.uk/BlackpoolFireworks2006/
>
> They were taken with a 350D - if you click on "details" under the "Photo
> Properties" heading you can see the exposure info.
>
> I used manual mode (exposure and focus) and used plenty of chimping to
> check I was getting something reasonable. I was using an IS lens so I
> tried some longer shutter speeds to get movement trails. The lens was
> the 17-85mm which is fairly similar to the 14-54 in terms of 35mm equiv
> fl. Using the wider lens means you generally get something in the
> viewfinder.
>
> The main problem I had was using the single thumbwheel to change both
> aperture and shutter speed, and having to have the camera to my eye when
> I did it, since this was the only was to see the settings in the dark.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike.
>

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