July 4th Fireworks
Photo by Brad Rickerby
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July 4th. Near the beach in Rhode Island. All the beaches are jammed. So we have our own little fireworks display. Just me, the girlfriend and her kids and kid's friends. Store bought fireworks. They amount to nothing but a little flash and a great big bang when you set them off. But with the proper technique, they become art.
The madness was in the method. You set off the fireworks low to the ground and these never gain any altitude. So you have to get under them. You also have to make them look far away, as if they were up in the night sky. That requires the compression of a telephoto. Telephotos have minimum focus distances. So you are lying on the ground, far away, shouting instructions to kids who are having too much fun to pay any attention, as the smoke from previous explosions clears. It was a blast. I have several of these images which I may post later. In this image, the autofocus picks the main body of sparkles in back to bring into focus so the explosions that have strayed into the foreground go wildly out of focus, creating quite a nice effect. Sort of spectral.
This image was created with a 200mm lens. ISO 800, at f 4.5 at 1/640 of a second.
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