My First Fireworks...

Finally got a chance to try shooting fireworks during a summer celebration my town did this evening. Read a lot of tips and had some trees in the foreground. Unfortunately, they changed their launch point from the last time I saw them and they didn't go up as high as they used to.

Used my 70-200, and my remote. D300, Manual focus set to Infinity, AutoWB (prob should have used Tungsten), ISO 200, f11.

Question....do you sharpen your shots in post? Sometimes when I sharpened, I seemed to lose color, i.e. the white portions got sharper and more pronounced and obscured the colors. Here's an example.

Unsharpened:

NIKON D300    ---    70mm    f/11.0    1/1s    ISO 200

Sharpened (70%, Radius 1 Adjust Sharpness in PSE6), see how much blue is lost.

NIKON D300    ---    70mm    f/11.0    1/1s    ISO 200

1. All these are sharpened.

NIKON D300    ---    200mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

2.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

3.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

4.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

5.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

6.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

7.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

8.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

9.

NIKON D300    ---    150mm    f/11.0    1/0s    ISO 200

 

Thanks Andy, gotta go find a 'park bench', LOL

 

thanks very much Gordon...

 

Thanks Brenda, I learned that I held the shutter open too long on the grand finale as many were overexposed (not shown)..next time 1-3 seconds prob...