Pan Fireworks...YES!

["George S. Pearl" <alps007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Comrades!
   I have done this ...been there,
with this fireworks thing. Maybe one out of 10 shots you will get enough
fireworks in the picture to call it fireworks of some sort. Even then,
you will only have very small amounts of the fireworks shot. What you see
in real life is nothing like you will get on the film. I have shot the
Olympic Games with a 70 mm Roundshot turning at 1/125th and 1/60th of a
second in the stadium. The stadium looked great, but the fireworks suffered
greatly. If I had slowed the shutter speeds even more, by the time I actually
saw the shot going up and fired off the camera, the actual exposure being
made would be so long to reach the shot that it would be over.This was
already a big problem with the shutter speeds that I was using.  Also,
you have to worry about the exposure and action of the rest of the scene
you are shooting.
   I would strictly stick with a still
camera to shoot fireworks at night so that you can get the entire trail
of the shot going up and blooming out on film. Rotational or swing lens
cameras are out of the question for this type of photography. BUT......If
you are hell bent on doing panoramic photography of fireworks.... Read
on....
    There IS one answer to this
problem! Shoot with a 35 mm camera doing VR of the area of panoramic coverage,
and then just shoot the one frame of fireworks area over and over again
to be added into the original panoramic frames. Hoz THAT! Give it a try
and let us hear how you did. Good luck,
George S. Pearl, QPP
Atlanta Panorama
 
 
 
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