Photographs (photos) of 4th of July Fireworks Display
Wallingford, Connecticut (CT) July 4, 2003

This is my first attempt at photographing fireworks with a digital camera. Now that I have the Canon 10D I felt it was time to experiment taking pictures of various things that I either didn't do well at in the past or have never done. Shooting fireworks falls somewhere between the two.
In the past I had taken some film shots of fireworks, but always half-heartedly. After reading some of the posts on the Canon digital forum I picked up enough info to give it a real try.

The following shots were taken with the Canon 10D using a 24-70mm lens set at 24mm, manual focus (slightly less than infinity) and with an aperature setting between f16 and f22. The camera was tripod mounted and a TC-80N3 remote release was used. Exposure time varied between 1 & 3 seconds. Sorry for the uninteresting background - a 'void' isn't very interesting. However from my shooting position there just wasn't anything there! Anyway it does make it easier to 'clone' a more interesting backround in to create something nice. Suggestions for improvement are invited.

These shots were all taken in Wallingford, Connecticut on July 4th, 2003.

Copyright 2003 Jerry Molaver
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