I placed the Nikon D90 on my Slik tripod next to the water’s edge and
got ready to shoot. I started taking images with the Nikon 18-105mm and after
some shots with that, switched to the Sigma 50-150mm. On both lenses, I had
autofocus and VR off while manually focusing on the lighthouse. Once again, I
shot in RAW, ISO of 200 and in manual mode with an aperture of f11 and blub.
Exposure ranged from 5 to 20 seconds to capture the distant fireworks.
Once in ViewNX, I made adjustments to exposure compensation to increase
the brightness of the image while changing the white balance to direct sun
light. Having done my fair share of firework images this summer, I decided to
create a new picture control curve to enhance them so I used it on this album.
The final adjustment was adjusting the highlight protection slider.
Final processing was done in PSE8 with adjustments made with the clone
brush, hue/saturation and layer masks. I once again used the clone brush to
clone over unwanted objects in the images and also increased the saturation. Different
layer masks helped me brush out the areas I wanted to be affected by these
adjustments. A high pass sharpening layer set to 20-40% opacity was done last
to sharpen the strikes of fireworks.
With all my firework photographs processed from the 4th of
July, I’m very pleased with what I was able to capture on camera. On this
shoot, my final image was a long exposure of the lighthouse which allowed me to
use the image in multiple images by cutting and pasting a good exposure of the
lighthouse over one that was not as exposed.
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