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Challenge: Fireworks II (Advanced Editing V*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD400
Location: Austin, TX
Date: Jan 1, 2007
Aperture: 3.6
ISO: unavailable
Shutter: 3.0
Galleries: Black and White, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 1, 2007

 I don't believe for a minute that this is one of my better photos, but in the spirit of the challenge and for the practice and comments, I decided to go ahead and submit it to see how the voters would react. Perhaps it's because I've been playing Harry Potter video games too much recently, but this reminds me very much of a young wizard casting the "Lumos" spell.

Statistics
Place: 69 out of 74
Avg (all users): 4.3486
Avg (commenters): 3.1667
Avg (participants): 3.9474
Avg (non-participants): 4.4333
Views since voting: 870
Views during voting: 297
Votes: 218
Comments: 6
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital
 01/05/2007 06:36:10 PM
Sorry but for me this is just not a very interesting photo. First off it´s black and white wich means no interesting colors as what is so good about fireworks in the first place. Secondly, there is no real detail in the shot, blown highlights or just pitch black with a hint of a hand in the right corner and I really require image quality to like most shot´s. Unless this is all intentional I encourage you to use a smaller aperture/lower ISO or both next time when shooting fireworks. Thus I voted 3.
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
 01/04/2007 09:10:46 AM
Kinda appears to be a desperation entry......
Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 01/03/2007 07:07:37 AM
Black and white is not the realm for fireworks shots.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 01/02/2007 07:17:08 PM
A little too blown out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/02/2007 02:34:26 PM
The hand holding sparkler is distracting maybe a crop to remove it would help.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZF f/2.0 Makro-Planar T
 01/02/2007 10:02:38 AM
b&w is not a good choice for this, it would have been a little better in color. Higher aiming of the camera leaving the light at the bottom outside the frame would have made this simpler and much better. 2 from me, happy new year and good luck.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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