Celebration of Light 2010

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Second time doing a shoot for fireworks..........it was very tricky to shoot, as I could not tell which one would be brighter/bigger, or the opposite..........

Shot at 200mm, and most pictures with the fireworks were cropped  +_+  

快樂牛郎

in this era, everybody is gonna judge you and your photos on thumbnails.

nobody is gonna blow it up and look at each pixel

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who cares if the image is soft or hard? it's for fun anyway.  If IQ is such an issue, then you would ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2011-8-3 16:55

not trying to make any excuse about my images
but thanks cowboy for pointing this out too

I think it was a fun experience too
getting up there 3 hrs before the show on a mountain in the middle of nowhere and shooting in the rain

快樂牛郎

who cares if the image is soft or hard? it's for fun anyway.  If IQ is such an issue, then you would use much better gears.

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post edit jpg is no good too la
siumaibb 發表於 2011-8-3 15:50

it was post edit on raw ga~

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hopefully that was the reasons too >.<

and I know last two was not sharp enough cuz I used DPP to  ...
嘉嘉 發表於 2011-8-3 12:25

post edit jpg is no good too la

siumaibb

zoom lens zoom to the max usually does not give you the best result, plus you cropped the pictures, so it is normal to have soft images like those.

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Maybe because of the smoke from fireworks?  You could be shooting through a thick foggy smoke?  

No ...
Look4chrisng 發表於 2011-8-3 10:44

hopefully that was the reasons too >.<

and I know last two was not sharp enough cuz I used DPP to bring up the EV value a bit in the post editing stage

Look4chrisng

Maybe because of the smoke from fireworks?  You could be shooting through a thick foggy smoke?  

No. 1 was sharp cos that was before fireworks?

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The tripod is not strong enough?

400D 可否先把反光板升起才開快門?

有無用快門繩? ...
elan7e 發表於 2011-8-2 20:45

it's a manfrotto tripod
you mean mirror lock-up?

yes I used a shutter release cable

如果係按快門時手震到o既話應該唔止咁輕微

同埋最後兩張我有用DPP拉返高個EV，唔知係唔係都有關係