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Paul's Photos
{K:35235} 1/19/2005
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nice image.. love the colors and lighting.. excellent work
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Ben Mok
{K:4084} 1/15/2005
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Thankyou for your kind comment my friend!
I will keep your advice in mind and implement it next time, preferably when I get my digital SLR.
Cheers,
Ben
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Walt McNeil
{K:2146} 1/15/2005
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Beautiful shot. You seem to be doing quite well with your firework shots, this one comes out very nicely.
Showing location, good foreground and nice display of color.
One tip that I heard about shooting fireworks.
Open the lens and then cover it with a hat or some thing; when you see a nice shot or series, take off the cover, add some fireworks, then replace the cover, keeping the lens open.
When you feel like you want to get different pictures, advance the film and do it again.
Pretty soon, you'll have a whole series of great fireworks.
This technique works well with flash-painting also.
walt
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Menno Naber
{K:3570} 1/6/2005
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Very nice Ben! great shot.
I think your settings were okai. Its always a bit of a guess for the exact shutterspeed. You can play around with it but keep your F the same
cheers Menno
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Rendy Rendratno
{K:442} 1/6/2005
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Nicely captured!
A rare display of opportunity at hand, sharp intuition, skill, and maybe, luck.
In Indonesia we rarely get a firework display :-(
Congrats Ben!
Rendy.
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Ben Mok
{K:4084} 1/5/2005
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Hi Michael,
Glad that you liked the photo and thanks for your handy tip.
Regards,
Ben
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/4/2005
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Great shot man. You can fashion a crude shutter by just opening the shutter up with your hand or a piece of cardboard in front of the lens, and then moving it out of the way for the actual burst. Listen for the first explosion launching the shells in the air and time the burst.
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Alastair Bell
{K:29571} 1/3/2005
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Only an honourary one! Still use the NZ passport ...
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Ben Mok
{K:4084} 1/3/2005
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Hi Alastair,
You are originally a kiwi? So what are you now? A Pom? :P
Regards,
Ben
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Ben Mok
{K:4084} 1/3/2005
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Thankyou Stephen for your valuable input and comments to all my pictures.
Regards,
BEn
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Daniel Silva
{K:2512} 1/2/2005
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Ben, this is defintely the best picture of 2005 (i know the year is very young, but this is an awesome shot!) best wishes in the new year
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Stephen Bowden
{K:64141} 1/2/2005
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Fabulous capture Ben - looking at your details, I would have done the same 10s/F8. Only other adjustments I would have done for a shot like this is to make ISO50 and daft as it sounds "under expose" by just over 1 stop (-1.3EV) is a good bet .... so easy to say after the event I know lol
On shots like the ones I put up, 4 seconds / ISO50 and -0.3EV.
But if you follow what Alastair has already mentioned, you will not go far wrong at all :-)
Best wishes,
Steve
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Marian Man
{K:80636} 1/2/2005
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stunning!!!!!!! best regars and Happy New Year
Marian
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Bruce Wallace
{K:668} 1/1/2005
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Well captured. Bruce
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Kelly
{K:20268} 1/1/2005
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Great shot Ben..... i watched this on telly last night.... but i see YOU had the best seat in the place...... congrat's well done..... Happy New Year
kel
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Alastair Bell
{K:29571} 1/1/2005
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Hi Ben,
I'm originally a Kiwi (don't hold it against me!) but have been living in the UK since 1988 (apart from a year living in Surfers Paradise in 1991)... I used to work in Sydney in 1988 as IT manager at Sheraton Wentworth hence the bicentennial fireworks memories....
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Ben Mok
{K:4084} 1/1/2005
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Thankyou Alastair!
Interesting and well worth trying idea. We have another firework on the 26th Jan (Australia Day) so see if I can get that filter and try it on my Canon EOS.
Regarding your comment on the settings, I had already set it to the lowest ISO and pushed it to F8.0. I really should get a new camera :)
Cheers,
Ben
btw where do you come from?
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Judi Liosatos
{K:34047} 1/1/2005
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This is stunning Ben. Beautiful work.
Judi
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Alastair Bell
{K:29571} 1/1/2005
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Nice PS image Ben... reminiscent of the fireork display I saw in 1988 at the bicentennial celebrations... ah... memories! The only thing you can do is set the ISO speed as low as possible, the aperture as narrow as possible (larger numbers) and hope you get it right! One interesting technique I heard was to fit an ND filter, set the shutter open on 'B' (don't think your camera can do this) and hold a card in front of the lens, removing it on successive fireworks to obtain the overlaid images of multiple explosions. Never trid it myself as not seen any good displays of late! Happy New Year!
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