Fort Wayne has a 3 Rivers Festival each year the week after July 4th and its closing fireworks are better than those on the 4th. They shoot them off of the tallest building downtown, and this shot was taken from about 2 blocks away, looking almost straight up.
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Well I want to start off by saying I probably would have voted this image a 4, 90% of that is I feel this image is shoehorned into the challenge by using the title to explain the photo, sorry but honestly, that´s how I see it. I just don´t see any extreme emotion in the photo itself, sure, the fireworks cleverly form the shape of a heart but where is the emotion in the picture itself? Sure, the title kindof explains that but I don´t really like when you need the title to explain the photo and try to avoid that at all times if I can, the photo should be able to stand by itself as an explanation as to how it meets the challenge, otherwise I could pretty much take just about any photo and explain how it fitted the challenge description.
I am really perplexed at the settings you used for this image, I usually use a much longer time and f11-16 aperture but I am glad this worked out for you, must have been difficult to time this properly. I use the other method, set up tripod, long time (usually 5-30 seconds or even longer) and f11-16 to make sure I get all of the firework, from start to finish, you must have known where the fireworks were going to explode :)
The photo then itself is pretty decent, the fireworks are well exposed, again I really like the shape of the blast making a heart and all the technicals and all that are pretty good. Sure, the composition is centered, but I don´t really see how you could have done anything different about that. Makes the photo maybe a bit like a "documentary photograph of a firework" since there is absolutely nothing else in the frame. I usually want foreground with firework, aurora borealis and lighting photos since that´s the only way those photos stand out from the rest, by themselves nightshots of these phenomenon are not really interesting to me.
Maybe had you taken a much wider shot and had a couple kissing in front of the firework, they just seen as silhouettes, this would have gotten a far better score, at least from me :)
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