Happy New Year (imgs)

Happy New Year (imgs) · 07:07 AM

Happy new year to all Pentax forum members...

These shots are from Melbourne tonight with the FA35 and K10d.. ;-)

roentarre · 12-31-2006, 07:43 AM

Happy new year, all pentax forum members

hehe Joel got them posted before I did.

All mine taken in jpegs with 31 ltd on k10d

kjask · 12-31-2006, 08:12 AM

wow, great shots, guys!!

have a nice time in 2007!

regards from (still) 2006!

clarenceclose · 12-31-2006, 08:13 AM

Happy New Year to you too. Got your smoke, boom and bright flashes way before us.

**NaClH2O** · 12-31-2006, 08:38 AM

Thanks Joel and roentarre! I love fireworks!

NaCl(one of the great artforms, and not respected enough for that IMHO)H2O

-=JoN=- · 12-31-2006, 09:02 AM

good stuff guys...

btw what settings did u use?

**Marc Langille** · 12-31-2006, 09:13 AM

Beautiful photos! Brilliant colors too...

It appears that PBase or adding your own attached photos strips the EXIF data...

What exposures, etc. were you using?

Cheers,
Marc

Duh_Vinci · 12-31-2006, 09:24 AM

Happy new year to you guys! Great photos, colors, virbance - just great!

Regards,
D

roentarre · 12-31-2006, 02:48 PM

Hi everyone. Joel is probably sleeping after a lucky shoot out with half a million people in melbourne CBD last night.

To Kjask, Clarence, Salt water, Jon, Marc, Duh Vinci, have a great new year and wish everything in life as colourful as these firework display: spetacular, refreshing and inspirational!

Joel and I were at one of the bridges about one hour before the fireworks. (A secret location we managed to find getting a good perspective from the perimetre of the city. It took us a long time to try different exposure time and aperture to second guess the best setting for the shots.)

We had a lot of trials to calibrate and we came to the same conclusion:

1. Longer exposure so that we can record more colour in the sky: 3s to 4s (Joel even did 6 seconds for some of the shots)

2. Use ISO 200 intead of ISO 400 or above. Too strong of colour hue from fireworks usually ruin the shots plus surrounding light could have been recorded. Since the camera has to be on tripod, turn SR off and use lower ISO with richer colour.

3. Aperture to be set between f11 - 16

Some of the fireworkds are really intense in colour temperature and would "flood" your pictures with the look of smoky water ink splashed on the toilet paper, oozing away...

My past experience from trial and error with other cameras usually have the setting set to ISO 400 with exposure time about 4 seconds and aperture about 13; with k10d, I would prefer ISO 200 with 4 second exposure and f11 aperture

Joel took his images in RAW and I did mine in Jpegs. So he has more room to "clean up" the images.

It was certainly exhausting to squeeze into a migrating mass of teenagers to take photographs. Both Joel and I were really ruthless in securing our spot not to be invaded by naughty cheeky later comers and using multiple non-verbal clues to repel other mobile phone-photo snappers away from our camera gear set up!!

Again, Happy new year and wish to see more firework shots from around the world!

I love New York and I went to the fireworks when I used to work in Mt Sinai Hospital. The time square experience photographing new year eve dancing party in central park was so much fun for me ...

-=JoN=- · 12-31-2006, 03:10 PM

thanks for the info James

yeah..was thinking about going to the city and capture the madness, but...i've i dont, i can always go next year. Lol...i need to plan it out if I was gonna do it...

anyway..thanks for the info, and have a happy new year..(to everyone as well)

roy · 12-31-2006, 04:07 PM

what do you mean-- happy new year?? it's still 7 hours away!!!
great shots BTW

vievetrick · 12-31-2006, 04:09 PM

Less then 6 on the US east coast

rojaba · 12-31-2006, 04:46 PM

Came here to show off my great fire works pics but after seeing the ones from Melbourne it feels quite pathetic ;-)

Anyway ist DL2 F3.5, shutter on 6 secs with tripod, noticed, like roentarre said, that tuning up the iso doesn't help at all and you get lots of grain.

Anyway past 12 o clock in Central Europe: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

joele · 12-31-2006, 05:36 PM

Thanks all...

SETTINGS

Mine were shot at...

1.5s - F11 - ISO 280
2s - F13 - ISO 280
3s - F16 - ISO 280

The ones that came out the best were the 3s and F16... Its all a matter of luck too, I just took lots of shots and you will get a few that are perfectly timed.. RAW helps too, as depending on the particular fireworks some shots are brighter than others (and hence the smoke is more visable)... Just push the exposure down (I use bibble) in the smoked pictures and it should save the photo, hiding the smoke...

I also used the IR remote so I didn't shake the camera by pressing the shutter release (not the best tripod)...

wjwncpro · 12-31-2006, 07:19 PM

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12-31-2006, 09:13 AM	#7
Marc Langille Site Supporter Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NW Arkansas, USA Posts: 4,710	now you've got my curiousity... Beautiful photos! Brilliant colors too... It appears that PBase or adding your own attached photos strips the EXIF data... What exposures, etc. were you using? Cheers, Marc

12-31-2006, 02:48 PM	#9
roentarre Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 11,783	Hi everyone. Joel is probably sleeping after a lucky shoot out with half a million people in melbourne CBD last night. To Kjask, Clarence, Salt water, Jon, Marc, Duh Vinci, have a great new year and wish everything in life as colourful as these firework display: spetacular, refreshing and inspirational! Joel and I were at one of the bridges about one hour before the fireworks. (A secret location we managed to find getting a good perspective from the perimetre of the city. It took us a long time to try different exposure time and aperture to second guess the best setting for the shots.) We had a lot of trials to calibrate and we came to the same conclusion: 1. Longer exposure so that we can record more colour in the sky: 3s to 4s (Joel even did 6 seconds for some of the shots) 2. Use ISO 200 intead of ISO 400 or above. Too strong of colour hue from fireworks usually ruin the shots plus surrounding light could have been recorded. Since the camera has to be on tripod, turn SR off and use lower ISO with richer colour. 3. Aperture to be set between f11 - 16 Some of the fireworkds are really intense in colour temperature and would "flood" your pictures with the look of smoky water ink splashed on the toilet paper, oozing away... My past experience from trial and error with other cameras usually have the setting set to ISO 400 with exposure time about 4 seconds and aperture about 13; with k10d, I would prefer ISO 200 with 4 second exposure and f11 aperture Joel took his images in RAW and I did mine in Jpegs. So he has more room to "clean up" the images. It was certainly exhausting to squeeze into a migrating mass of teenagers to take photographs. Both Joel and I were really ruthless in securing our spot not to be invaded by naughty cheeky later comers and using multiple non-verbal clues to repel other mobile phone-photo snappers away from our camera gear set up!! Again, Happy new year and wish to see more firework shots from around the world! I love New York and I went to the fireworks when I used to work in Mt Sinai Hospital. The time square experience photographing new year eve dancing party in central park was so much fun for me ... Last edited by roentarre; 12-31-2006 at 04:19 PM.

12-31-2006, 05:36 PM	#14
joele Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,308 Original Poster	Thanks all... *SETTINGS* Mine were shot at... 1.5s - F11 - ISO 280 2s - F13 - ISO 280 3s - F16 - ISO 280 The ones that came out the best were the 3s and F16... Its all a matter of luck too, I just took lots of shots and you will get a few that are perfectly timed.. RAW helps too, as depending on the particular fireworks some shots are brighter than others (and hence the smoke is more visable)... Just push the exposure down (I use bibble) in the smoked pictures and it should save the photo, hiding the smoke... I also used the IR remote so I didn't shake the camera by pressing the shutter release (not the best tripod)... Last edited by joele; 12-31-2006 at 05:48 PM.

12-31-2006, 07:19 PM	#15
wjwncpro Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: All over the USA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 193	Happy New Years everyone

12-31-2006, 07:43 AM	#2
roentarre Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 11,783	Happy new year, all pentax forum members hehe Joel got them posted before I did. All mine taken in jpegs with 31 ltd on k10d

12-31-2006, 08:12 AM	#3
kjask Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Slovenia Photos: Gallery Posts: 324	wow, great shots, guys!! have a nice time in 2007! regards from (still) 2006!

12-31-2006, 08:13 AM	#4
clarenceclose Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Pocatello, Idaho Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,506	Happy New Year to you too. Got your smoke, boom and bright flashes way before us.

12-31-2006, 08:38 AM	#5
NaClH2O Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bronx NY Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 5,631	Thanks Joel and roentarre! I love fireworks! NaCl(one of the great artforms, and not respected enough for that IMHO)H2O

12-31-2006, 09:02 AM	#6
-=JoN=- Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 999	good stuff guys... btw what settings did u use?

12-31-2006, 09:24 AM	#8
Duh_Vinci Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Photos: Albums Posts: 1,300	Happy new year to you guys! Great photos, colors, virbance - just great! Regards, D

12-31-2006, 03:10 PM	#10
-=JoN=- Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 999	thanks for the info James yeah..was thinking about going to the city and capture the madness, but...i've i dont, i can always go next year. Lol...i need to plan it out if I was gonna do it... anyway..thanks for the info, and have a happy new year..(to everyone as well)

12-31-2006, 04:07 PM	#11
roy Inactive Account Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: D/FW area, Tx. Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,710	what do you mean-- happy new year?? it's still 7 hours away!!! great shots BTW

12-31-2006, 04:09 PM	#12
vievetrick Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Easthampton - Massachusetts - USA Photos: Gallery Posts: 5,183	Less then 6 on the US east coast

12-31-2006, 04:46 PM	#13
rojaba Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Herzogenaurach Photos: Albums Posts: 226	Came here to show off my great fire works pics but after seeing the ones from Melbourne it feels quite pathetic ;-) Anyway ist DL2 F3.5, shutter on 6 secs with tripod, noticed, like roentarre said, that tuning up the iso doesn't help at all and you get lots of grain. Anyway past 12 o clock in Central Europe: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

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