Well it’s been a while since I posted, but I haven’t been resting on my laurels. I’ve been out on several locations over the last few weeks, trying for a few more good shots 🙂 . I’m only getting around now to editing them. Hopefully over the next week I’ll be able to update the blog to cover the shoots.

Anyway, I’ll start with the latest  shoot – Fireworks.

Last Saturday (25/06/11), Derry celebrated the opening of the new Peace Bridge. On Saturday Night, there was a firework display. This was the first time I have actually photographed fireworks properly. I normally just point at shoot – but they never come out properly. I met up some of the guys in the camera club along the quay, where I set up my tripod. Due to the low light (well, it was night-time – lol) and to get the best shots, I went for the jugular and went in to manual mode.

I set my ISO to 100 for less noise. To get sharp clear shots, I was going to have to use long exposures. So with various f-stop settings, I messed around with different shutter speeds to try for different effects etc. By doing this, I started to click on to the relationship between the shutter speed and f-stop. I started to see the fact that, when I have a higher f-stop number i.e. F22, this means that the aperture opening is small, therefore I need the shutter to stay open and vice versa.

I managed to get a few good pictures – albeit having to crop another member of the club  out of some of them– 🙂

Although the location I was at, was quite good, I feel that maybe if I’d have gone further back up the key, I could have avoided some of the fireworks getting clipped due to their height – it’s hard trying to guess how high they’ll go. Anyway below is one of the shots which I took.

Fireworks – Derry Footbridge Opening

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more photos – check out the links to Flickr and my photo albums.

~Keith~