4 sec
f22
800 iso
liked the fireworks, buildings still came out too dark in the original.
also kind of disappointed how blurry the buildings came out for f22. perhaps i didn't get the focus right in the darkness.
needed some fairly heavy pp to bring back the buildings and sharpen things up. that in combination with neat image to help the noise from the high iso I thought for sure spelled doom for this image. oh well, I'll never figure this site out.
Thanks for the ribbon and getting my Central Park monkey off my back.
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Great shot. Try doing a mirror lock up on long exposures. The camera shakes when you hit the shutter which will cause stationary things to blur. Also, if you have a cable release or remote for it, use that too to cut down on the vibrations.
Congrats on your ribbon! It's a striking scene. Re: your sharpness comments, the Circle of Confusion begins to set in at about f/11-f/16 on that lens, depending on how wide you are zoomed, and CoF is particularly destructive of night scenes. You have enough DOF with the 10-22mm to essentially have 3 feet to infinity in focus at f/5.6 or f/8, so it shouldn't have been an issue. You could have run this at ISO 100 and f/8 if you'd chosen to. Also, I almost never use autofocus at night (unclear if you did), preferring to use a small penlight to set the focus manually by distance on the lens.
Thanks Bear. Obviously I need to work on my technical skills. Kind of embarrassing knowning I could have shot that at ISO 100. I did focus manually on the buildings to the right, but there were obviously issues. Still not sure I understand CoC and if the higher f-stop actually hurt my focus. From looking at the other night fireworks shots with foreground objects, foreground focus did appear to be an issue alot.
Congrats on your ribbon! It's a striking scene. Re: your sharpness comments, the Circle of Confusion begins to set in at about f/11-f/16 on that lens, depending on how wide you are zoomed, and CoF is particularly destructive of night scenes. You have enough DOF with the 10-22mm to essentially have 3 feet to infinity in focus at f/5.6 or f/8, so it shouldn't have been an issue. You could have run this at ISO 100 and f/8 if you'd chosen to. Also, I almost never use autofocus at night (unclear if you did), preferring to use a small penlight to set the focus manually by distance on the lens.
I love the space created in this shot; the depth of the corners; the shades of black; the shape of the fireworks; I guess the shot would be more spectacular if the fireworks portion filled up a bigger portion of the fram, like Scavelt's winner, but in reality, you can't compromise the shot for the sake of formula. THis is a great shot that would make a terrific print, I am sure; good going.
Nice shot, what I find most interesting about it is that there only seems to be a small portion of the city celebrating and the rest are, well sleeping or something :)
wonderful setting! this whole pic has a very nice feeling to it. the buildings and the water make this great, as well as the interesting shapes and colors of the fireworks.
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