I went with a friends to the 4th of July fireworks in NY this last week and in spite of the rain it was a very good time. I carried the Dx with an A 24 FA 43 and vacillated between a 55 f1.8 or 85 f2.0 and finally decided on the real telephoto. I didn't take a tripod, was really looking to do some crowd/people shooting but I shot quite a lot of the fireworks anyway. Some of them weren't half bad.
Just a bit of carping, I noticed when I opened almost all the fireworks files into any raw converter I could get some very subtle colors in the actual fireworks. However when I loaded them into Photoshop (7.0) for final editing, when they were converted to the working color space many of those colors were lost. This image had much more vibrant blues and reds, which Photoshop just washed out. I tried a number of different color spaces in the raw converter including sRGB and every one did the same thing. Oh well, another damned mystery. http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/fireworks/PESO%20--%20fwny2008_01.html Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax M 85mm f2.0 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
