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ZapperZ
Jun28-08, 06:26 AM
I Love Fireworks!

With the 4th of July looming this coming week, I thought it would be timely to have our theme on fireworks. While the spectacular show in the sky certainly is the main candidate for the theme, smaller "fireworks" such as sparklers, etc. also qualify.

Zz.

Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 650 x 490 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. These pictures must be something that you took, not something taken off someone else's photo albums or taken by someone else. I have no way of checking if you did this, so we'll go by the honor system.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread.

Zz.

Borek
Jun28-08, 06:52 AM
Not July 4th, but January 1st.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/varsaviana/sylwester08.jpg

Still, some fireworks visible :wink:

ZapperZ
Jun28-08, 07:14 AM
They had fireworks for the New Year, and only 2 people showed up? :)

Zz.

hypatia
Jun28-08, 07:41 AM
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/hypatia3811/fireworks1.jpg

Borek
Jun28-08, 08:04 AM
They had fireworks for the New Year, and only 2 people showed up? :)

Zz.

No, there were at least five people - two visible (on some pictures there is also their dog visible), me and my wife (behind the camera) and someone to light the fuse :wink: We went to celebrate New Year on the shore of the Zegrze Reservoir, about 20 km from here.

Hey, PFers, as you see I am not that much into partying :smile:

ZapperZ
Jun28-08, 08:30 AM
No, there were at least five people - two visible (on some pictures there is also their dog visible), me and my wife (behind the camera) and someone to light the fuse :wink: We went to celebrate New Year on the shore of the Zegrze Reservoir, about 20 km from here.

Hey, PFers, as you see I am not that much into partying :smile:

BTW, I forgot to mention this earlier, but you need to pay attention to the SIZE of your photo and our photo contest rules.

Zz.

Borek
Jun28-08, 08:55 AM
Thank you for spotting. Now and then I am reusing pictures that were resized for other forum where 700 horizontal looks OK on 1024 monitors, and now I either remember to resize them again - or not.

moose
Jun28-08, 11:30 AM
When I get pictures of fireworks, this contest will be over...

Moonbear
Jun28-08, 11:50 AM
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/hypatia3811/fireworks1.jpg

Last time I entered a fireworks theme contest here, I got critiqued for my squiggly, shaky photos. But, I really like the effect in yours...it almost looks like a carnation blossom fully opened. :smile:

hypatia
Jun28-08, 01:18 PM
I think it was the only one of about 30 that looked kind of cool, I think because it went off so low to the ground. I wish I had my old camera back.

neutrino
Jun28-08, 02:24 PM
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i276/navneeth/IMG_2457.jpg

Between the last contest and this one I had to the opportunity to photograph fireworks once, and not to mention it was my first time. Since I couldn't predict where they would go off, I couldn't frame the shots properly. :frown:

Moonbear
Jun28-08, 03:35 PM
When I get pictures of fireworks, this contest will be over...

I doubt I'm going to get to any July 4 fireworks this year, but since most of us don't live in Chicago where they go off a day early for some strange reason, perhaps we can plead for this contest to run to July 5 so those who might have an opportunity to see some July 4 fireworks have time to upload photos the next day?

binzing
Jun29-08, 09:30 PM
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn123/binzing/rsz_P8111413.jpg
Here's mine. Ahh, metal sparklers....

neutrino
Jun30-08, 09:50 AM
A timely article (http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-photograph-fireworks/) (for some at least) from the DPS Blog. (It's actually from last year.)

ZapperZ
Jul1-08, 04:04 PM
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5169/img0775sj3.jpg

Zz.

ZapperZ
Jul2-08, 05:43 AM
To accommodate those who are planning on snapping pictures of the fireworks on the 4th of July, I've extended the deadline for photo submission to this contest by one day. So you will have all of the 5th of July to get your pictures in.

Zz.

ZapperZ
Jul4-08, 07:50 AM
Just a reminder that you have 2 days left to submit a photo for this contest, including Saturday, July 5th. So go out and get those fireworks pictures!

Zz.

ZapperZ
Jul5-08, 04:08 AM
Final day to submit a photo for this contest. Did anyone get good fireworks pictures from the 4th?

Zz.

Moonbear
Jul5-08, 09:03 AM
It was raining yesterday, so I didn't even go out to see the fireworks displays. :frown: I heard them after dark though, so I guess they held them in spite of the rain, unless those were just people setting them off in backyards in the area. I was hoping for a rain date.

binzing
Jul5-08, 10:04 AM
I got some trippy ones. My camera doesn't make it very easy to manually change the aperture, and the shutter speed is only slightly easier.

dragon2200
Jul5-08, 08:32 PM
My first time shooting fireworks my personal favorite.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/dragon2200/4th%20of%20July%20Copyright/DSC_0120copy.jpg

turbo-1
Jul5-08, 08:33 PM
My first time shooting fireworks my personal favorite.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/dragon2200/4th%20of%20July%20Copyright/DSC_0120copy.jpgVERY pretty!

GeorginaS
Jul5-08, 08:38 PM
My first time shooting fireworks my personal favorite.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/dragon2200/4th%20of%20July%20Copyright/DSC_0120copy.jpg

Well done!

Moonbear
Jul5-08, 08:56 PM
Wow, dragon, that's quite a wonderful photo for your first attempt! Actually, that's a wonderful photo for ANY attempt. :biggrin:

Evo
Jul5-08, 08:59 PM
dragon, that's awesome!! Well, I guess we have a winner. :cool:

What kind of camera/lenses? What settings? I can just imagine what the full photo looks like.

dragon2200
Jul5-08, 09:04 PM
I used my new Nikon D80 with a 28-135mm Nikor lens, UV filter and Bogen tripod, Camera settings were ISO 100, Aperature was set at f11 and shutter was set to Bulb. I spent 2 days researching how to take pictures of Fireworks.

lisab
Jul5-08, 09:27 PM
I used my new Nikon D80 with a 28-135mm Nikor lens, UV filter and Bogen tripod, Camera settings were ISO 100, Aperature was set at f11 and shutter was set to Bulb. I spent 2 days researching how to take pictures of Fireworks.

:!!) Nice picture.

Dragon, have you found our photography thread here in general discussion? You'll find kindred souls there, I think!

Cyrus
Jul5-08, 09:44 PM
I went all the way down to DC to watch the fireworks, but no camera :frown:

Moonbear
Jul6-08, 09:45 AM
I spent 2 days researching how to take pictures of Fireworks.

Looks like it paid off! Between the quality of the photo, and the great composition (talk about the perfect July 4 combination of fireworks with red, white and blue all layered in one shot), I predict you're going to run away with this competition.