The New Year's Eve fireworks display over Baltimore's Inner Harbor was moved from New Year's Eve to 7PM New Year's Day, due to wind.
I took this photograph from Federal Hill Park.
I always have terrible luck with fireworks pictures, and tonight was no exception. I had my lens manually focused at infinity, and somehow moved the focus ring at one point, rendering about 20 pictures out of focus. (Some of them would have been my best shots, of course.) Whenever I had my camera pointed in one direction, the best fireworks were going off about 90 degrees away. Whenever I tripped the shutter, I'd get 5 seconds of lull between bursts. Etc.
But this picture isn't too bad. At the rate my fireworks shots keep improving, by the 4th of July 2048, I'm really going to be hitting my stride.
Camera was a Pentax K10D, with the 18-55mm kit lens at 40mm. Exp. 1.6 sec. @ f/8, ISO 100. Bogen 3001 tripod and wireless remote.
On the way home from the fireworks, I stopped and took some pictures of City Hall. You'll note that the rotunda is illuminated in purple. That's done when the Baltimore Ravens football team makes the playoffs.
Camera was again my Pentax K10D, with 18-55mm lens at 35mm. Bogen 3001 tripod and wireless remote. I took 6 shots - 3 pairs, with each pair consisting of one shot at the nominally correct exposure, and one 2 stops under. Each pair was digitally blended, and the 3 resulting images stitched together to create this final image. I know there are easier ways to accomplish the same thing, but I went with what I know. It came out okay, which is the important thing.
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Michael