Equipment Used: Nikon D750 with a 24-120mm f4 lense, Viltrox Remote
& Slik Pro 500DX tripod.
With a rented D750, I was excited for the 4th of July
weekend and Lake Panorama’s Fire in the Sky firework show. I wanted to see what
a full frame camera could do compared to my D90 so I had them set up side by
side. I had a new location to shoot from which resulted in capturing not only the
fireworks, but the many boats on the water.
Just like the D90, I had the D750 shooting in RAW and in manual mode
after turning the autofocus and VR off on the lense. The shutter speed was set
to bulb and aperture at f9. ISO was at 200. Exposure time ranged from 6 to 27
seconds. During the firework show, I started out wider with the lense and then
kept zooming in along with changing to a portrait orientation. I had a remote
in each hand for the two cameras so tried to capture different series of
fireworks but ended up getting many that were similar.
One feature of the D750 that I didn’t expect to use or like that much
was the tilted screen but after using the camera on a tripod and in different
situations, the tilted screen is very useful.
In order to process the D750’s RAW files, I had to download Capture
NX-D. Just like on the D90 files, I adjusted the exposure compensation, picture
control, saturation slider and highlight/shadow slider. With the much newer
sensor technology and being full frame, I was able to lift the shadows with a
much cleaner look on the D750 compared to the D90. A couple of the images were
turned into HDR’s so I adjusted the exposure compensation on them from -0.5 to
+3. I choice the Natural setting in Easy HDR for the processing that program
does to create HDR images.
In PSE 11, I did the same steps to finalize the images as I did for the
D90 firework shots. In doing so during periods that I was zooming in, the quality
of the files as far as noise was visible between the two cameras.
Using a two camera set up for the first time, was a joy to use as it
allowed me to get different angles of the fireworks and have more images to
share. I’m looking forward to having the
set up again in the future.
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