4th of July fireworks

[pecha]

fireworks were prohibited in my town, the only ones out there were done by the professional company
I rode my bike up this dirt, rocky road to get to the viewpoint. as expected, there were cars there already.
here's a view, downtown south lake tahoe on the left, lake to the right


here's more of the lake, look at these effin lights - they're all boats! they're probably still waiting to dock


it started in Camp Richardson




main fireworks in slt soon joined


getting bigger


awesome














sorry, no pictures of a big finale as I did NOT want to get stuck behind 15 cars trying to go down the dirt road

the come back was awesome, splitting lanes all the way as traffic was stopped for 5 miles
and yes, I suck at taking pics of fireworks, I love taking night pics but there was the first time I shot fireworks

[allbaugh_04]

Nice pics, I made a video of our town tonight. They are prohibited in the city limits, if i posted the video you can see me scanning the whole skyline, everything was lit up constantly for like 3 hours, no one gives a fuck about rules around here I guess haha

[gjb]

Shot in Poway, CA.

[pecha]

what settings on the camera?

[gjb]

Timed exposures between 8-20 seconds @f/12-22, manual focus. Rig is a Canon 40D with a 17-40f/4L lens.

[rbob93]

pecha.....you might want to try a tripod, it will help

[cammed goat]

Great pics folks. I love fireworks.

[pecha]

pecha.....you might want to try a tripod, it will help

I was shooting from a tripod. It was just very windy up there, that's why it looks shaky. Exposures 2-4 seconds and a lot of wind did that

[pecha]

Timed exposures between 8-20 seconds @f/12-22, manual focus. Rig is a Canon 40D with a 17-40f/4L lens.

did you also use flash?

[rbob93]

I was shooting from a tripod. It was just very windy up there, that's why it looks shaky. Exposures 2-4 seconds and a lot of wind did that

Wow, that must have been very windy up there. Never would have thought.

I should have known better though, you usually take great pics.

[gjb]

did you also use flash?

No flash. Here is the exif data:
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?b=3&refer...fireworks2.jpg

[Mean Green Z28]

very nice! Didn't have a tripod myself, so all my pics are blurry or underexposed (can fix that in PS but no time).