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Ferry Meadows

Jason Benz — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:21:59 +0000

This was taken at the 2010 Ferry Meadows firework display in the UK.

The photograph was re-processed using only Camera RAW.

The stock photos from the event are available here.

New Year

Jason Benz — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:01:11 +0000

Happy Hootenanny 2013. Karen chose the colour scheme for this post. We both watched the awesome Sydney fireworks from the UK this afternoon then enjoyed a quite pint in the local pub. Wishing everyone a great year ahead!

Amateur Advantage

Jason Benz — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:37:43 +0000

This lucky shot was taken on the way home from the Ferry Meadows firework display. The only reason the four figures are not blurred in this 1 second exposure was that they stopped for a moment while their friend in the centre took a shot. Anyone in the right place at the right time with the perfect light has the chance to capture a great shot. As you learn more about photography you can increase the frequency of capturing these images. If you are an amateur photographer you could benefit from selling your work online. It is no coincidence the rise of micro stock agencies has coincided with the increase of the photography hobbyist. I can understand why professional photographers would be concerned with current changes to the stock industry. Crowd sourcing images has inherent advantages. Stock photography sites never reject images without a reason and suggestions to improve your photography. If you can take criticism it can be an invaluable learning tool. Professional photographers would probably find rejection far harder to stomach especially if they had been used to selling their work for much more at traditional stock agencies. The image below greets you when you login to shutterstock as a submitter. It shows where your latest sales have come from. Interestingly none of them have sold in the countries they were taken in.

New Year

Jason Benz — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:20:30 +0000

Happy New Year 2011. This was taken at the Ferry Meadows firework display in the UK. The glowing effect is made by first raterizing the text. This changes it from a vector to pixels. Once in pixels you can use bitmap effects in Photoshop. By using Gaussian blur on a copy of the text layer below you can create the glow.

Misty Meadows

Jason Benz — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:39:20 +0000

Last night we went to the Ferry Meadows Firework Display. This was taken at the end of the display. It was the second time I have photographed it with two cameras. I set up my prime lens to capture the reflection across the water on a fixed tripod. The second body had my wide angle on a tripod I could quickly point at any point of the sky. Both cameras fire almost continuously throughout the display. This is one of the rare times I do not shot in RAW. By recording jpegs only you stop the cameras slowing down as the backlog of large RAW files fill up the cameras buffer while they wait to write to the card. Firework displays are very much a batch exercise as its hard to predict what you will capture in a 4 second exposure. I took 217 images, I cut theses down to 45, Cropped a few and submitted them to Shutterstock. After a couple of days just these 2 firework shots were accepted.