For those of who you might remember, I started a thread about 6 months ago about getting a rebel XTI for christmas, and being stoked about it.

Well, I replaced it with a Canon 40D, a much cool, bigger, badder camera. I got it for my birthday about 2 weeks ago.

And I wanted to both encourage folks to post pictures of their own, and post some pictures I took last night of the 4th of July.
Enjoy.

And yes, I see the blue/white/red dots in some of the pictures, I've resolved the problem (I think).

Holy side scroll batman.


...and nice pics.

side scroll? get a better monitor. >_>

nice shots, you should go into the porn business

Those honestly have to be some of the best fireworks pictures I've ever seen. Seriously, no one has any idea how difficult it is to get good fireworks pictures until you really try.

The entire show I kept trying different settings and things out.

I had the joy of getting some good advice from yahoo.com or something about "how to get great fireworks pictures on the 4th of july."
"set your aperature to f8-f16" and I kept doing intervals of f4-f32 or something, mainly keeping in that f8-16 range.

I also had to, for example, set a 2-second timer so it wouldn't get blurry on the shots. Taking the picutes outright wasn't working.
In other words, I had a tripod, and when I press the "take picture" button, the camera shook and it messed up. So I hit a 2-second timer so when the picture got taken, it would be not blurry. (A remote for the camera would have helped)

I liked how stuff turned out, these were the better ones. I had alot of estimated shots with minor fireworks before they'd fully exploded, and some with total blackness :P.

#3 and everything 6 and after are my favs

I took that photo AND designed the steelwork!



That's the statue of Constantine outside York Minster

taken with my canon S5. i love this camera and i'm actually using the settings on it to do different things other than point and shoot.
my boys and i were visiting my sister a couple of weeks ago on the north shore of lake superior. it's incredible up there. so rugged.

[img]http://davetaddeo.com/images/pebble beach.jpg[/img]

[img]http://davetaddeo.com/images/mink falls.jpg[/img]
[img]http://davetaddeo.com/images/josh across.jpg[/img]
[img]http://davetaddeo.com/images/sleeping giant.jpg[/img]

I've got two I'll post. First was taken on my cybershot T-50 around 9pm or so, second was actually taken on my LG voyager haha.






Also those fireworks pictures are stunning. What an excellent quality camera. Wish I had the moolah for one of those babies.

Canon Rebel XTi:

photos i took when i went to africa:







not the best but i liked them!

PS -- You got a 1k camera for your birthday? Must be nice!

Photos that I took when camping at Red River Gorge in May.

• http://localhostr.com/files/0c7c5b/DSC_0103.JPG
• http://localhostr.com/files/d84287/DSC_0110.JPG

Photos that I took of Thunder Over Louisville.

• http://localhostr.com/files/5ef5a6/DSC_0123.JPG
• http://localhostr.com/files/de989d/DSC_0159.JPG

Photos that I took when visiting New York City.

• http://localhostr.com/files/059d20/DSC_0145.JPG
• http://localhostr.com/files/89db9b/DSC_0161.JPG

I have a Nikon D50 w/ 18-55mm lens. I hope to get a better lens eventually.

Actually selling my XTI covered about half the cost, and my parent's paid the other half :P.

Wow good stuff Veger! I like the closeup ones.

Ive used a Canon Rebel before too, that one was a lot of fun. I need to get a nice camera like that soon.

i'm not part of a rich family so i only have a Sony DSC-S85

and i don't do much photography...

I love my kitties so here is one obligatory shot of my cat Fidget



a shot of one of my sisters art pieces


picture of one of the first tulips of this last spring. besides my knuckle i like this one.



Also, for the sake of this thread, some roman candle/rocket pictures from our fourth of July. These were my first attempts at taking light painting and fireworks shots.





This one looks much better if its rotated to look like they are coming from the ground, but this is the way that its supposed to sit..






The first 3 were taken with my crappy little Kodak Easy Share Z700, the others by my sisters Olympus Camedia C-5000 Zoom camera. I don't know a huge amount about cameras so I have no clue what the exact settings I used were.

I don't really know why, but I like this one..took it with my Nikon D40 early one morning.

I have a question for you Phoenix301. The one fireworks pic, 2nd from the bottom, of the skyborne streamer kinda thing. In the bottom right there is a face. Were you at a window by chance? I know this is off topic lol, but it was kinda kooky i thought.

He probably had the shutter set to a slower speed (for exposure), and someone stepped into the frame.

Jlee, I just thought I should inform you, those new lights cause me mass anxiety at night when I am speeding.

Can't tell you from civis anymore!!

I really like your pictures Phoenix, good job.

Corrected. Besides that, you are exactly right.