Fireworks – 1
The San Angelo Symphony gives a July 3 Pops Concert and Fireworks Extravaganza at the Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage. This is a big thing in town. The symphony plays the 1812 Overture and a couple of real civil war era cannons provide the cannon noises. (These bad boys give GOOD BOOM!) After the concert, they shoot off fireworks.
Not to be outdone, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (SAMFA) hosts a little party for a few hundred of their favorite members (i.e., those ones who can afford the tickets, proceeds to the museum.) For the price of admission you get to hobnob with the cities finest, eat all the bar-be-que you can hold (brisket, sausage, chicken, biscuits, rolls, cole slaw, and cherry or peach cobbler a la mode with vanilla Blue Bell ice cream for dessert — triple yum!), partake in an open bar, and sit on top the top deck of SAMFA for the concert and fireworks. What a deal!
My wife and I go every year except last year when it conflicted with a meeting and we were out of town. The concert and museum festivities were cancelled this year because of COVID-19. Here are five frames of fireworks from 2018.
Fireworks – 2
My wife and I finished our BBQ and cobbler early and got the deck in time to claim seats on the front row. I set my Canon 6D up on a tripod and pointed it in the direction of the fireworks. It was set to shoot verticals.
Fireworks – 3
I was using the Canon 24-70mm f2.8 zoom lens, which I set to 38mm after the fireworks got started because 38mm seemed to cover most of the action.
Fireworks – 4
I used 2-10 sec, f16, 100 ISO. The f16 is keeping the fireworks from being too bright and the exposure time just serves to capture little groups of fireworks.
Fireworks – 5
I noticed that I started out with 10 sec and the times got shorter as the show progressed. This shot, Fireworks – 5, was shot last of this group at 2 sec, while the others were either 6 or 8 seconds.
Bonus Frame
I hope you enjoyed the fireworks. Happy 4th of July!
These shots were all processed with Darktable, free software for Windoze, Mac, and Linux.
Wow! I can’t take fireworks pikkers for crap.These are great!