Mike,
Thanks for the advice. Obviously worked, there's some good stuff in the
gallery.
Regards - Martyn
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
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Sent: 07 December 2006 17:16
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Advice on shooting a firework display
Martyn,
I've been to a couple of firework displays in the past few months and I
think I took some reasonable pictures.
http://photo.whizzkid.co.uk/BlackpoolFireworks2006/
They were taken with a 350D - if you click on "details" under the "Photo
Properties" heading you can see the exposure info.
I used manual mode (exposure and focus) and used plenty of chimping to
check I was getting something reasonable. I was using an IS lens so I
tried some longer shutter speeds to get movement trails. The lens was
the 17-85mm which is fairly similar to the 14-54 in terms of 35mm equiv
fl. Using the wider lens means you generally get something in the
viewfinder.
The main problem I had was using the single thumbwheel to change both
aperture and shutter speed, and having to have the camera to my eye when
I did it, since this was the only was to see the settings in the dark.
Regards,
Mike.
Martyn Smoothy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will be attending a firework display tomorrow night - thought I might try
> taking some pics (never attempted to photograph fireworks before).
> Intend to try the e-1, probably with the 14-54 (but could use the
50-200) -
> any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards - Martyn
>
>
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