[A] Fireworks

I went to Pier 39 in San Francisco to watch the fireworks for 4th of July, and even though the fireworks were pretty medicore (nothing to compare with Disneyland's!) I still got some great shots. Most of these were taken with veeery slow shutterspeed to capture the light.

http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks2.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks3.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks4.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks5.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks6.jpg

And some experimental ones:

http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks7.jpg
http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks8.jpg

And a special one for my boyfriend where I tried to create a heart with the light from the firework. It kinda turned out well. :p

http://www.hannahsuh.com/images/fireworks9.jpg

Aaah, I love the heart one, that's my favourite. How did you do it? The pictures are so nice and they came out well. :) I wish it wasn't so stormy in NY on the 4th of July, or else I would have tried to take photos of fireworks.

The second one is awesome! And the last one is cute. Terribly cute. Sappy lady.

Top stuff, as always. Miriel ftrox.

The heart one is cute :D Those are some great shots there Miriel, the experimental ones are excellent.

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Originally Posted by Rye

Aaah, I love the heart one, that's my favourite. How did you do it?

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I set the shutterspeed to something like 10 seconds and then slowing moved my camera in a heart shape to capture the light that way. It's a simple trick, all you have to do is to move slowly and make big motions while the shutterspeed is dragging.