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July 4th Fireworks

Jul
5
2010
July 5, 2010
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I was not really planning on photographing the fireworks on July 4th, because I was enjoying a short vacation with my family at Glenwood Springs. When I was told that the fireworks would be fired from an open area behind the hotel where we were staying (less than several hundred feet away), I decided to take the challenge and see if I could capture anything interesting from that close of a distance. As I pointed out in my how to photograph fireworks article, it is generally not a good idea to stand too close to fireworks. I wanted to see what other challenges I would face, considering that I only had two lenses with me – Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II and Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G, shooting on an FX body.

Captured with Nikon 24-70mm lens (square crop)

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How to Photograph Fireworks

Jun
30
2010
June 30, 2010
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Wondering about how to photograph fireworks at the 4th of July fireworks show? With only a few days left before the US Independence Day, many of us photographers will soon be preparing to take pictures of beautiful fireworks. In this quick article, I will provide some tips on how to best capture fireworks, what type of equipment to use and what camera settings to use during the process. Although the process of shooting fireworks is relatively simple, there are some things that might be worth trying, as outlined below.

Fireworks #1

Fireworks, 3 second exposure

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Independence Day Fireworks

Jul
4
2009
July 4, 2009
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We’ve just come back from a local park, where we watched the Independence Day fireworks. We arrived at around 9 PM (fireworks were supposed to start at 9:30 PM) and it was impossible to find a parking spot. The area around the park was closed by the local police and we had to drive into neighborhoods to find parking. All close-by neighborhoods were packed with cars and as I was driving, I noticed an old man waving at me. I stopped, rolled down my window and he offered his parking spot right outside of his house. How nice of him! And he was only one block away from the park! We found a very nice area by a baseball field and waited for about 20 minutes there before the fireworks began.

The show was great! A full 30 minutes of non-stop fireworks action with stunning twists and combinations.

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Downtown Denver Fireworks

Jan
17
2009
January 17, 2009
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We didn’t do anything interesting on the 31st of December (since I was working my ass off at work and had to come to work on the 1st to process the first payroll out of SAP), so I took my family to Downtown Denver for the New Year fireworks show.

Well, I guess after seeing the 4th of July and Disney World fireworks, I had high expectations, to say the least. I don’t know if the city of Denver under-budgeted this year for the fireworks, or perhaps it has something to do with the economy – but the show sucked bad. Fireworks lasted only for about 15 minutes total with weird interruptions in between and it felt like people were standing on the roofs shooting home-made explosives from the buildings. Nothing went high up in the sky, everything was low and puny…

Downtown Denver Fireworks

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