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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Hanabi!
Yesterday, A few friends and I took the train to a town in Kumamoto Prefecture called Yatsushiro to see their annual fireworks competition. It was far and away the best fireworks display i have ever seen. First of all, there were 13000 fireworks and over 30,000 people. Second, there were so many different fireworks routines, some of which had music, and all of which were very cool! The Japanese word for fireworks is Hanabi (花火） which means fire flower. Last night was my first time photographing fireworks and after doing so, i have found the name to be completely and 100% accurate. Most of the pictures i took with a 4 second shutter speed to give the fireworks time to bloom and usually i caught the rocket as it went up. a combination of these made the fireworks look like large, brightly colored dandelions or other flowers.
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Wow! The exposures don't look all that long. Four seconds must be the perfect exposure time for these conditions. You sure do know what you are doing!
ReplyDeletethanks! there was some playing around required, some shots were as short as a half second and as long as 10 seconds. the 10 second ones were too washed out and you couldn't see the color and the half second ones were too dark so i didn't post any of them
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