Independence Day 2010

I celebrated the Fourth of July this year with some friends on a rooftop in downtown Baltimore. Pretty good view. We were so far away from the fireworks that we heard the finale once there were no fireworks in the sky.

These are shot with my 1D Mark IV and a 24-105 f/4. I hooked up a cable release and shot on Bulb most of the time and timed the exposure for the beginning and end of each firework. I wasn’t in a great location to get a good scenic background of the city or something that was lit up enough.

To add exposure to the city backdrop, I exposed fora  longer time (while maintaining clarity in the fireworks), but that resulted in messier looking photos with multiple fireworks in each exposure.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 58 mm, 1″, f/5, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 80 mm, 2″, f/7.1, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 24 mm, 4″, f/5, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 85 mm, 2″, f/5, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 80 mm, 4″, f/5.6, ISO 200)