Southend and fireworks

[zetec]

My first efforts with fireworks on my trusty point and shoot. I am well chuffed with some of these pics. Any advice/critisism will be welcomed, will be going back next Saturday to try again.













>> Edited by zetec on Saturday 22 October 21:39

[406]

They are very good, especially since you used a point and shoot. I especiallt like the last one but a bit of PS would help. IMHO

Best you join the CLUD ASAP. Judging by those, a D70s / D50 would be well used in your hands

Dave

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[te51cle]

Yep they're pretty good. Interesting that you used shutter priority at 2 seconds, did you set that yourself or was it a "night" or "fireworks" program in the camera ? If there's the option to go to full manual or use exposure compensation it might be worth trying a stop or so smaller aperture next time as that'll keep more colour in the fireworks. Aperture priority would give a longer exposure time which also might be worth experimenting with.

For the street scenes I'd turn off the flash if it'll allow you to do so so that you don't get number plates hanging in mid air.

[zetec]

Thanks for the advice. Camera is a Nikon Coolpix 5700, allthough no DSLR it gives me some control. I didn't have much time to mess around yesterday but found that shutter speed gave results I was happy with (on a tiny screen on the camera though). I'll bear in mind the advice regarding shutter speed and aperture. Cheers for the flash advice as well, I can turn it off so I will try that next time.

Cheers!

[_dobbo_]

Some nice images there,