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.

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

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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...