Location: City of Naga, Cebu
Date taken: October 5, 2013
Today, City of Naga in Cebu celebrated its 6th Charter Day as the current mayor of the city is also celebrating his birthday. A while ago, there was a 5-minute fireworks display (actually I didn't know it was only 5 minutes until it ended). I had no idea how to shoot fireworks so I decided to search through Google what are the settings to be used for the said shot.
I tried using the 50 mm prime lens and very anxious about it since I had no freedom to use a wide angle lens. So it was challenging for me and my tripod is not sturdy enough. As I was fixing my camera, there went the explosion. I was not really that ready at all. Forgive me for being a noob.
I tried using the aperture f/2.8 but it was overexposed so I was using f/11 all the time. As what I've said earlier, I never thought that the fireworks display was just too short. I would love to play a smaller f-stop at least f/5.6 but I did not get the chance.
All in all, I only got 23 shots and all of them are not that impressive but still I'm happy that I have experienced to shoot some fireworks. May be, if only the fireworks lasted for 20 to 30 minutes, I would have the chance to improve some of my shots.
Some of the pictures here were cropped from the original size to frame the fireworks.
I'm using Adobe Lightroom for some retouching. I got the process from this
site but this is the process I use:
- +17% for the Contrast
- - 100% for Blacks
- +5% for Saturation
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