Non Aviation Photography Thread

[Matt Ottosen]

Happy Fourth of July!


The Rocket's Red Glare


The Bombs Bursting in Air

[Jbong]

Matt, that is a amazing shot. Very nicely done. If you dont mind what were your settings? did you use the 150-500mm

[Chris V]

Nice shots Matt!

Hoping to get some fireworks shots myself tonight.

Jason try ISO100, F/11 anywhere from 4 to 30sec with a tripod & cable release.

[Jay Beckman]

Likewise...

We're heading over to Airport Drive at CHD down toward the T-Hangar end along the fence on the east side of the street.

Fireworks will be to the N and W at Tumbleweed park.

[BillOz]

Those turned out nice Matt.

Prior to the fireworks starting, be sure to focus on something at about the same distance as where the fireworks will be, and then turn off AutoFocus, otherwise, your camera may do a lot of searching for focus when taking the shots.

Cable release, Ah ha, what's that? 
Just kidding, last year I didn't have a remote and had to stand there for 1/2 hr. continuously pressing the shutter button each 5-10-20 seconds.  This year I have the remote.

[Jay Beckman]

A couple from tonight's show in Chandler.  Didn't get the A+ location so I went tight and "abstract."  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!







Hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th!

[Paul Dumm]

Jay, Did you get an aircraft going by in the last one. It's in the top third blinking light.

[Jay Beckman]

Yup, I guess I did... 

Had about four or five departures off CHD just prior to the display going off.  That "message" plane with the lights under the fuselage made a couple circles of Tumbleweed Park around 815pm.

[BillOz]

Jay, For not having the A+ location, they turned out quite nice.

Here are a couple from Tempe Town Lake.
The first one has a plane coming thru to land at Sky Harbor.  Those passengers had quite the view.
Exposure info. 95 mm, ISO 100, 8 sec., f16
Second pic. 95 mm, ISO 100, 4 sec., f11

[Chris V]

Here is a few of mine.

[cpasley]

Great work guys ,I didnt know firework pics could come out so good and cant even wrap my head around the dynamics of taking them

[Matt Ottosen]

Thanks guys, my shots are from a couple of years ago (last time I shot fireworks).

Here are the settings I used that night:

Exposure: 5 sec
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

I was on manual and used a remote.

[Jay Beckman]

Mine from this year danced around 8s @ f/11 ISO 100 and I was probably around 150mm or so using a 70-200mm f/2.8L IS with IS off.

The key is a solid tripod (I even hung a sandbag off mine and still got some "wiggles" .. I really need a Gitzo 3-series!) and I find using a shutter release cable to be a lot easier than self timer or manually pressing the shutter.

I actually stood behind my camera and sort of "eyeballed" which bursts would fall in the frame and which would not based on how they had the morters arranged.

[Stephen Marshall]

I had a horrible time with the "wiggles" on the 4th. I was even using a remote and had trouble, though I do have a fairly cheap tripod.

[bilwor]