Celebrate!

As promised, (threatened?) here is another photo from Thunder Over Louisville. This one better illustrates my balconial-perch at the Galt House. I assumed fireworks were going to be hard to shoot, but wow, you really have very little time to get it right. (Having said that, my apologies if you're offended in any way by my photograph.) The shutter for this image was left open for five seconds, which was probably too long since the background isn't very dark. For me, luck played a huge part in this shoot since if I chose to leave the shutter open four seconds and a really bright cluster exploded, the picture was washed out and, conversely, if I decided four seconds was too long and quickly reduced it to two seconds for the next picture, it might have only captured what appeared to be an unexciting, sputtering lull between explosions. But, to throw my logic off, sometimes even two seconds was too long! A photographic crapshoot! Still, a heck of a lot of fun and now I know for next time! (Nikon D300, 22mm, f/11, 5 sec, ISO 200, cropped)