Equipment Used: Nikon D750, Tamron 24-70 mm f2.8 G2 lense, Nikon
SB-700 Speedlights on Vello Wireless Flash triggers, Vanguard Abel Plus 363CT
& Slik Pro tripod, Viltrox Remote Control, Lightroom & Photoshop CC
This year, Panorama Day’s fireworks were set off on Friday night so I
walked out to the lighthouse on the main basin of Lake Panorama and waited for
them to go off on the south shore. After
having an issue with misfocused images during the 4th of July, I
made sure the lense was focused correctly.
I put the D750 on the VanGuard tripod and attached the Viltrox Remote
Control on the camera while putting the SB-700 Speedlight on the Slik tripod.
The Vello wireless flash trigger was attached to the speedlight. I shot at an
aperture of f9.0 and ISO 400 while the lense was at 35mm. Shutter speeds ranged
from 1 to 10 seconds. While the camera was capturing the firework bursts, I’d
hit the trigger to set off my speedlight to light up the lighthouse.
The images were first batch processed in Lightroom by using the
firework presets that I’ve developed since last summer. I then adjusted the
images individually for exposure and saturation while adding radial filter to
reduce the exposure of the grass on the jetty below the lighthouse. These
processed files were then exported as TIFF’s to Photoshop.
The first step in PS was using the clone or healing brush to get rid of
unwanted objects in the images. About the only object that needed remover was a
Canada goose that stood on the end of the jetty by the lighthouse during the
firework show, imagine that! The fireworks were shot off with some going left
while others went right which allowed me to blend multiple images together to
get a bigger more dramatic burst of fireworks. To do this, I used layer masks
and different blending modes. I also took the best exposed lighthouse image and
used it on different images as well. I added some vibrancy to the firework
bursts by using the vibrance layer as well.
The panoramic image was taken before the fireworks were going off so
after combining those images in LR, I then added the fireworks using PS that I
captured later.
At the end of the firework show, I then turned my camera towards the
condo’s and the Port to capture that scene that overlooks Lake Panorama.
I’m very pleased with how these fireworks turned out and can’t wait to
put them on metal prints and drink coasters.
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