BistiArt is happy to announce addition of David Cramer to this eminent list to join Jack Houser. I've had the privilege of shooting with them and can indicate each is a master in his own specialty.
We present these images and invite you to follow the progress under Links>Associates in the BistiArt menu. There, you can find direct hooks to each of their websites or galleries. Each photographer has chosen from among their best images. Each image is wholly owned and copyrighted by the individual photographer.
We present these images and invite you to follow the progress under Links>Associates in the BistiArt menu. There, you can find direct hooks to each of their websites or galleries. Each photographer has chosen from among their best images. Each image is wholly owned and copyrighted by the individual photographer.
Night Flowers
©Houser
While I was watching a fireworks display, it occurred to me that with most fireworks pictures, the photographer shows only the burst, but if you capture the trail of the rising rocket, it resembles the stem of a flower. So with my Nikon D200 on a tripod and using an electronic release, I set the ISO at 200, the shutter on B and the aperture on f/16; then opened it just as the rocket started to rise and closed it after the burst had died out. The total exposure time varied between about 10 and 20 seconds. I took about 85 shots over a two-night show and picked the twenty images that most resembled flowers. In Photoshop I created a black background and moved the twenty images onto it, placing them in a way that suggested a garden to me. After painting around some areas of the bursts that were not completely black, I had my fiery garden which I named Night Flowers.
Night Flowers won Member's Choice, Photo of the Year, Enchanted Lens Camera Club, June, 2007!
©Houser
While I was watching a fireworks display, it occurred to me that with most fireworks pictures, the photographer shows only the burst, but if you capture the trail of the rising rocket, it resembles the stem of a flower. So with my Nikon D200 on a tripod and using an electronic release, I set the ISO at 200, the shutter on B and the aperture on f/16; then opened it just as the rocket started to rise and closed it after the burst had died out. The total exposure time varied between about 10 and 20 seconds. I took about 85 shots over a two-night show and picked the twenty images that most resembled flowers. In Photoshop I created a black background and moved the twenty images onto it, placing them in a way that suggested a garden to me. After painting around some areas of the bursts that were not completely black, I had my fiery garden which I named Night Flowers.
Night Flowers won Member's Choice, Photo of the Year, Enchanted Lens Camera Club, June, 2007!
Night Flowers
©Houser
While I was watching a fireworks display, it occurred to me that with most fireworks pictures, the photographer shows only the burst, but if you capture the trail of the rising rocket, it resembles the stem of a flower. So with my Nikon D200 on a tripod and using an electronic release, I set the ISO at 200, the shutter on B and the aperture on f/16; then opened it just as the rocket started to rise and closed it after the burst had died out. The total exposure time varied between about 10 and 20 seconds. I took about 85 shots over a two-night show and picked the twenty images that most resembled flowers. In Photoshop I created a black background and moved the twenty images onto it, placing them in a way that suggested a garden to me. After painting around some areas of the bursts that were not completely black, I had my fiery garden which I named Night Flowers.
Night Flowers won Member's Choice, Photo of the Year, Enchanted Lens Camera Club, June, 2007!
©Houser
While I was watching a fireworks display, it occurred to me that with most fireworks pictures, the photographer shows only the burst, but if you capture the trail of the rising rocket, it resembles the stem of a flower. So with my Nikon D200 on a tripod and using an electronic release, I set the ISO at 200, the shutter on B and the aperture on f/16; then opened it just as the rocket started to rise and closed it after the burst had died out. The total exposure time varied between about 10 and 20 seconds. I took about 85 shots over a two-night show and picked the twenty images that most resembled flowers. In Photoshop I created a black background and moved the twenty images onto it, placing them in a way that suggested a garden to me. After painting around some areas of the bursts that were not completely black, I had my fiery garden which I named Night Flowers.
Night Flowers won Member's Choice, Photo of the Year, Enchanted Lens Camera Club, June, 2007!
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