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Saturday
Jul052025

4th of July Fireworks by Ric Rosow

Submitted by Ric Rosow

The riverfront was loaded with lots of spectators, many of whom arrived early to claim a spot to sit. Last night I used a different technique on a number of my shots. I read an article earlier in the day published by Canon. They suggested appropriate camera settings, but also a technique where the camera is placed on “bulb” mode which allows one to manually determine how long to keep the lens shutter open. In my case I used a cable to trigger the shot and of course had the camera on a tripod. That all is fairly typical and used by photographers when doing long exposures. But what they then suggested was to place a baseball hat over the lens in between the explosion of individual fireworks while the shutter is held open. So when a firework went up in the sky I would trigger the shutter open for just the explosion, then cover the lens with the hat, next remove it when the next explosion occurred, and only after that release the shutter button to close the lens opening. That process captured the colors of two or more separate fireworks which explains why the colors may look different than a normal shot.


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