I also found it useful. I've shot fireworks with Velvia at f5.6 with
several second exposures and had good results. Seeing shorter duration
exposures is quite useful.
-jeff
On 12/8/06, Martyn Smoothy <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the advice. Obviously worked, there's some good stuff in the
> gallery.
>
> Regards - Martyn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Mike Lees
> 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.
>
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