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It had been a while since I had my DSLR out since Robin and I have not been traveling as much as we did when we lived in Europe, The fireworks show on Port Stanley beach for Canada Day gave me a reason to dust my Nikon off and do some shooting.<\/p>\n

I did a quick refresher on how to shoot fireworks with this article<\/a> from National Geographic and hit the beach around 9:45 pm.\u00a0 I took a spot close to the point where the fireworks were being launched and pointed my camera up. I used a slow shutter speed of 1-4 seconds, having the best results with 4 seconds.<\/p>\n

Camera: Nikon D7000
\nLens: Nikon 18-200mm f\/3.5-5.6
\nFocal Length: 18 mm
\nExposure: 4 sec at f\/11.0
\nISO Speed Rating: ISO 100<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The show was over in 15 minutes but I managed to shoot about 75 shots during the show. Edited, I was happy with 3 of them with the one above the best of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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