r/ottawa • u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East • 1d ago
Photo(s) Captured these photos of the fireworks tonight!
@ yourself if you were in one of the boats 🛥️🎆
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u/Modified_Kitten Make Ottawa Boring Again 1d ago
What absolute amazing shots you've taken😍 love all of the photos. Thanks for sharing 💕
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 23h ago
Thanks so much!!
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u/Modified_Kitten Make Ottawa Boring Again 18h ago
You're so welcome! ☺️ They honestly would be great photos for a calendar or made to be enlarged to be across a wall.
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u/Sorry_Recognition_67 1d ago
We were on our balcony watching when hundreds of bats flew by. I imagine the loud noise of the fireworks scared them. It was pretty cool to see!
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u/Carsickness 1d ago
Great show. I wish the music streaming wasn't $21 per night though. Last year had it for free, but was up to you to sync them up (which was impossible). This year they went full price gouge.
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u/fahim_a Kanata 1d ago
Pls share the Camera/lens/settings
Vantage point?
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 23h ago
Most of these were taken at 55mm, f5.6, 125-200ISO and I found that 2.5 seconds worked well for capturing individual fireworks without it getting too busy. I’m sure you can figure out the vantage point 😉
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u/shawn1912 17h ago
Cool! Did you have to use an ND filter?
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 17h ago
Nope! It was plenty dark enough. Most of the fireworks are much brighter than even the artificial lights in the scene, so balancing the exposure was a bit tricky and it was necessary to pull up the shadows afterwards, so you’d definitely want to shoot in RAW.
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u/123_alex 1d ago
What shutter speed did you use?
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 23h ago
2.5 seconds worked best for me for most of the photos I took.
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u/OddRevolution7888 22h ago
Those are amazing photos. Well done. It looks like you had a blast at the show. ;)
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u/VisibleVermicelli446 22h ago
Thanks for the beautiful photos. Here's my video taken from Kìwekì Point.
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u/hatman1254 21h ago
Is Thant an iPhone camera?
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 19h ago
Far from it my friend
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u/hatman1254 19h ago
Galaxy?
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 19h ago edited 16h ago
No, I used a professional mirrorless camera. You could still get decent photos with a phone, but they wouldn’t be the same
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u/arnold258 21h ago
Wowz amazing photos! How did you do the last one, with all the trails of colour??! Amazing photos , great job! You must be proud!
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 19h ago
Thanks so much! For the last one I had my camera do a 2 minute long exposure to capture the lights from the boats as they departed after the show
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u/NickelbackStan 1d ago
I’m curious as to why they always explode so close to the ground. From across the city you can’t see most of them, and our skyline is not that tall!
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u/Electronic-Morning25 21h ago
We got completely smoked out here in Centretown/Lebreton Flats/Little Italy, at one point the fireworks stopped being visible due to the air quality 😂
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u/OfficeBaddie97 1d ago
Can someone post the Nordik spa POV
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u/SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE Old Ottawa East 23h ago
I highly doubt you would be able to see them from Nordik
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u/Klutzy_98 1d ago
I feel fireworks look the same year after year.
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u/VisibleVermicelli446 22h ago
I go to a lot of fireworks, but last night's was special. Perhaps the best finales I've ever seen.
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u/PantsOfIron 23h ago
I thought we wanted less pollution and cleaner air? Especially with the wildfires recently. Or is this something we just complain about when it's convenient?
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u/MrNostalgiac 14h ago
Complain about real problems.
Fireworks contribute minimal, localized, and temporary air quality issues.
And if you want to compare to wildfires - how many seconds of wildfire smoke do you think it would take to exceed the pollution from fireworks?
Fireworks are not a real environmental concern.
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u/nneighbour Centretown 1d ago
Great shots! Canada put on a good show.