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03-JUL-2017 Laura Milholland

Red, White and Blue
by Laura Milholland

San Rafael, CA

Fireworks is an ideal time to use Manual mode.
After pre-focusing at infinity (or about that) I chose my lowest iso (100), and had been shooting between 1/3s and 2 seconds - starting with f/11.
I was actually not too far from the fireworks, and they were quite low, so I was tending to burn out. Thus I chose to shoot at f/16 for a better exposure.
I also used "Timed" exposure, so I could open/close my shutter as I wanted (each with 1 click).
This set wasn't super bright, so I was able to leave the shutter open a bit longer at 2 seconds.

Nikon D5300 ,Nikon new AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR
2s f/16.0 at 65.0mm iso100 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time03-Jul-2017 21:36:38
MakeNikon
ModelNIKON D5300
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length65 mm
Exposure Time2.10 sec
Aperturef/16
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-1 1/3
White Balance
Metering Mode
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

other sizes: small medium original auto
Liz Bickel05-Jul-2017 23:15
Very pretty! Well exposed. Your town must really go all out to have a display like this for days.
Dale Palmer 05-Jul-2017 12:11
Very nice! We didn't have any here that looked like this one.
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