These are really nice, Peter. What sorts of shutter speeds were you using? They're very sharp for hand-held shots.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 7/9/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PESO -- Fireworks NY 2008 I > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 11:38 AM > 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. -- 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.
