Shaun Loc: Tucson, AZ

My house sits up the hill from the La Paloma resort and every year they have a nice little fireworks display for their guests. It may not be as spectacular as some of the other shows here in Tucson but the fact that I can sit on my pool deck and not have to worry about someone bumping in to my tripod or walking in fron of the camera more than makes up for the size. I wanted to show the little details of the individual burst that you normally cannot see with naked eye so I zoomed in to 70mm with my Sony a6000 and 18-105 G lens, set the ISO at 125, the aperture at f16 and the shutter speed at 10 seconds. I shot with manual focusing and just sat there with a remote shutter release in one hand and a Margarita in the other and just kept taking 10 second shots until the display was over.

I shot in RAW in case there was some color correction or exposure problems that needed to fixed in Lightroom but very little post processing was needed other than the cropping and some small corrections on the highlights slider. I love the fact that the longer exposure lets you see all the little details that might be missed by the naked eye.

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RJWagons Loc: Lake Ridge Virginia

Beautifully captured.

AlohaBob Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Thanks for posting this. Very helpful and great images.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

That's what I've been doing wrong. No Margarita. Bill

vikinguy Loc: Durham NC

wOW Purely gorgeous.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

You should be very proud of these shots. Excellent captures.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Very nice!