That time of year again.

[Graham.J]

That time of year is upon us again with evenings filled with burgers, hot dogs, whizzes, bangs, "ooooh"s and "aaah"s.

Our local firework display was on last night and for the past 2 years I've wanted to get out and take some pictures of it but health was never permitting. I manage to get out last night though. I found it a bit harder than I thought it'd be, mainly trying to get a good balance between shutter speed and aperture.

Also, my camera (Nikon D70) is taking A LOT longer to process the shots than it used to. Any ideas to why this is?


A montage








Finale

[Andy M]

Graham.J said:

Also, my camera (Nikon D70) is taking A LOT longer to process the shots than it used to. Any ideas to why this is?

Noise Reduction mode turned on?

Faulty memory card?

[Graham.J]

Andy M said:

Noise Reduction mode turned on?

Faulty memory card?

Hmm, I've not changed any of the settings. That said, I have had a couple of errors flash up at times so my memory card could be on its way out. Damn

[Scoobydougie]

Really like your shots, this is definitely a lot harder than you would think. I had a try at this last night and the results were less than spectacular!

[chris.mapey]

I'd suggest that the Noise Reduction is working harder as there is more blacks in those images. (Does the display in the viewfinder / top of the camera say "Job nr" before the preview comes up?

Have a try at turning it off in the menu and see if that improves matters.

Great shots BTW

Chris

[Teppic]

Taken from my living room window using an old Sony Cybershot DSC-W5

[Graham.J]

Scoobydougie said:

Really like your shots, this is definitely a lot harder than you would think. I had a try at this last night and the results were less than spectacular!

Thanks very much And it is! I stuck it on shutter priority first but all my shots were going orange from the ambient light. So had to play with manual. I'll remember for next year though - and to get there early to set up

[Graham.J]

chris.mapey said:

I'd suggest that the Noise Reduction is working harder as there is more blacks in those images. (Does the display in the viewfinder / top of the camera say "Job nr" before the preview comes up?

Have a try at turning it off in the menu and see if that improves matters.

Great shots BTW

Chris

Haha, it's funny you should say that, Chris.

I was just about to post up saying "Anyone know why my camera flashes "Job nr" after I take a relatively long exposure shot? I've looked in the error messages section of my manual but there's nothing there" - now I know it's because it's not an error

How much of an affect does the Noise Reduction have on the shots? If it's noticeably better I might leave it on and work around it. If not, it's going off.

Thanks very much too!

Graham

Edited by Graham.J on Sunday 4th November 13:40

[Graham.J]

Teppic said:

Taken from my living room window using an old Sony Cybershot DSC-W5

Good job I loved the red ones. I'm quite miffed as I missed a really nice blue and orange one due to the noise reduction working its magic.

[Gingerbread Man]

Graham.J said:

How much of an affect does the Noise Reduction have on the shots? If it's noticeably better I might leave it on and work around it. If not, it's going off.

Thanks very much too!

Graham

If you have Photoshop or editing software like that, then you edit away in that post shots.

Using the on board camera function takes a while as you have noticed and you may miss that all important shot.

Turn it off

David

[Zad]

One function of NR is as follows: If your shot is (say) 8 seconds then, when the shutter has closed, it will take another 'dark' 8 second exposure. It then subtracts this exposure from the first. This removes some of the nastier forms of noise and non-linearity. Thermal noise is random and cannot be removed, but is not as obvious as 'hot' pixels etc which NR should take out.

[CVP]

Graham - I'd say number 2 is a really top image, well done

Chris

[RobDickinson]

Heres a few from my local display.

Got a few things wrong, zoomed in too much, missed most of the big ones, used a POS 75-300 piece of junk that wasnt quite focused right.























Not too bad for a first effort, theres always next year!

[Graham.J]

Gingerbread Man said:

If you have Photoshop or editing software like that, then you edit away in that post shots.

Using the on board camera function takes a while as you have noticed and you may miss that all important shot.

Turn it off

David

Zad said:

One function of NR is as follows: If your shot is (say) 8 seconds then, when the shutter has closed, it will take another 'dark' 8 second exposure. It then subtracts this exposure from the first. This removes some of the nastier forms of noise and non-linearity. Thermal noise is random and cannot be removed, but is not as obvious as 'hot' pixels etc which NR should take out.

Thanks guys, I'm suitably convinced to turn it off. Though, Zad, that is very interesting! Thanks for that

[Borris-Bear]

These are a few from or garden party on Saturday - taken with a Canon S3 IS

[Graham.J]

CVP said:

Graham - I'd say number 2 is a really top image, well done

Chris

Thanks Chris I actually missed it when I went through the pics first time round and it's probably my close 2nd fav too!

[Graham.J]

Great pics Rob & Borris! It's nice to actually see the ground fireworks (I missed those as they were below the trees. I wanted the big ones more)

[MartinP]

Some great pictures!

Here are a couple I took on Saturday on my new Canon 40D (only got it that morning, so was still getting used to it).

[white_van_man]

a few taken in sydney at new years

[twister]

First attempt at night-time photos with my new 400D and kit lens...