D750 - 4th of July Fireworks 20 on Lake Panorama
Equipment Used: Nikon D750, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 G2 lense, VanGuard Abel Plus 363CT tripod , Lightroom & Photoshop CC
Alongside the D7200, I also had the D750 set up on its tripod to capture the firework bursts over the boats and water during Lake Panorama’s 4th of July fireworks.
Settings for this camera was ISO 500, aperture of f9 and shutter speed of bulb with a zoom level of 38mm or 50 mm. Exposure of this collection of images ranged from 4 to 11 seconds. Like mentioned in the D7200 write up, I forgot my remote releases so had to hold down the shutter button on the camera. Autofocus and VR was also off on the 24-70mm lense.
In Lightroom, I modified a preset I created last year for the firework scenes on the Lake for the D750 but moved the location of the graduated filters to line up with the horizon between trees/sky and water/boats. The highlight slider was used to keep some of the white in the fireworks from being exposed to far to the right. A graduated filter was used strictly for the boats to increase the exposure on them as well. I selected a couple different images and opened directly into Photoshop has layers which allowed me to change the blend mode to lighten to blend multiple firework bursts together.
Once in Photoshop, I got rid of unwanted objects like the cell phone tower on the left side of the images using the healing brush along with a few lines from tall grass that were visible in the water. To straighten the images, I needed an adjustment of .5 degrees and then cropped them after that to make the final photograph.
Just like every year, the firework show was great and seeing the boats out on the water made a great scene to capture with the Nikons.
