Wednesday View - 11 July 2018 Edition

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On Saturday evening Kim and I went to see a fireworks show presented by the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City. The Trop as it is known has fireworks every Saturday at 10 PM during the Summer. The show runs about 10 minutes and is preceded by a light show on the Boardwalk. Today's view is a shot I made as we enjoyed the show.

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I shot this with my Samsung Galaxy S8. I also have a video of a portion of the show that I may share in a future post.

Here is Yesterday's View.

Tuesday July 10, 2018

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For today's photo we step away from Atlantic City and head right out to our back yard on Saturday morning. While snapping some shots I grabbed this really cool couple of Bluejays. Not my best work but the composition is good.

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Technical Info

- Canon EOS 80D
- Sigma DC 18-250mm Lens at 106mm
- Shutter Priority
- Aperture F5.60
- Shutter Speed 1/200 Second
- ISO (Film Speed) 400
- Center Weighted Average Metering

Here is the "Before" image.

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I also have a video I would like to share. And actually we take a step back to Atlantic City and to the Tropicana Casino to enjoy some fireworks. During the Summer the Tropicana Casino puts on a Saturday night fireworks show at 10 PM. It's always a good time and best of all it's free!

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Yesterday's View...

Sunday July 30, 2017

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Kim and I have been in our new house for just over four months now. And we are still learning about the area even though we used to live four short miles away. Today for the first time we attended "West Norriton Day". I guess it's really just a day to celebrate the town we live in. Kind of a hometown pride thing that most towns have throughout the country. And like many of those similar celebrations the day ended with a rather nice fireworks show.  But what was really cool was that we were able to view it from the comfort of our own back yard. It was like a front row seat. I guess that's because it took place just a quarter mile away.

Today's photo of course is my attempt to capture some of the show with my camera. In this case my phone.

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Don't mind the power line in the shot. Hey, I said our view was front row. Not perfect :)

Being a "snapshot" I don't think it's necessary to share technical info. I will tell you however that I was using my Samsung Galaxy S6.

I did also shoot some video. It's not bad. I learned a lot about the view though and think the next time will be a lot better.

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Yesterday's View...

Friday May 19, 2017

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Today we are going back a few weeks and taking a look at some fireworks over the Ben Franklin Bridge that connects Philadelphia Pennsylvania with Camden New Jersey. This is from New Years Eve and was viewed from the Spirit of Philadelphia cruise ship.

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Not bad for a phone camera.

Technical Info

- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Pro Mode
- Manual Setting
- Aperture F1.90
- Shutter Speed 1/30 Second
- ISO (Film Speed) 1600
- Average Metering

I adjusted the colors in Photoshop and darkened the image to make it look more natural. I also cropped out the people around me giving it kind of a panoramic look.

Here is the Before" image.

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Yesterday's View...

Wednesday January 18, 2017

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Exploration Photography Daily View - July 4, 2016

Hi and welcome to the Daily View!

And happy Independence Day (United States)!

Kim and I are still in Atlantic City celebrating the 4th of July holiday and like every year we enjoyed a very good fireworks show. This year however we were also greeted with rain and some pretty high winds and a good amount of fog. But that didn't stop the show. I did my best to shoot some photos and I think some of them came out decent. So for today's view I would like to share one with you.

I shot this with my Samsung Galaxy S6 from the 19th floor of the Flagship Resort. If it wasn't for the weather we would have had a perfect view. Still though, I think it was very good.

Here is a short video too.

And now...

Yesterday's View...

Sunday July 3, 2016

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Exploration Photography Daily View - July 2, 2015

Hi and welcome to the Exploration Photography Daily View! Today I would like to share another shot from our trip to Citizens Bank Park last night.

The Phillies may not be having a great year but I can't think of a more beautiful place to lose a ballgame. Check lout the view of center city straight ahead.

Yesterday I mentioned that we saw an excellent fireworks show after the game. Well here it is. All 15 minutes. It's not the best quality video. It's slightly unstable. but I was hand holding my phone. Check it out at the link below.


Phillies Fireworks - July 1, 2015


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Exploration Photography Daily View - July 1, 2015

Hi all and welcome to a mobile edition of the Daily View. I'm at tonight's Philadelphia Phillies game with Kim and my Father In Law and as usual the Phils are getting a whooping. Oh well, at least it's fireworks night and that should be fun. So I hope you enjoy this beautiful view of the setting sun.

 

  

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October 22, 2014 - Photo Of The Day

I'm still migrating. Migrating files from my old PC to my new PC that is  There is a lot of photo work on the old one that I still haven't worked through so some of the photos that I want to share are being delayed a little. So I will work with what I have at the moment and share some fireworks with you. This is from a couple weeks back when Kim and I were in Ocean City and was shot with my Galaxy S4.

The buildings are a little grainy but I think ten fireworks and sky are pretty good.

On a related note the reason I always have my camera phone shots available is because I have them backed up to Microsoft OneDrive. My camera is set to automatically upload photos to OneDrive whenever I am connected to WiFi. That way I don't lose them and can access them from any computer with an internet connection. I also back up to two other cloud services, Dropbox and Google Drive but I do that manually. Redundancy can be a good thing!

I hope to get everything transferred soon so please check back to see what I have to share.

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October 11, 2014 - Photo Of The Day

The rain is finally over...I think. It seems that the weather people can't get it straight this weekend. Especially down the shore where Kim and I are.

We planned this trip as one last chance to visit Ocean City before most of it closes up for the season. This is also the weekend that the annual block party is taking place here. The rain kind of put a damper (pun intended) on the block party but it did stop in time for a fireworks show over the beach to cap off the night. I will post some pictures of the fireworks in a bit but for now I would lie to share a photo of the boardwalk from this evening.

Still a little wet but I think that makes for a nice picture. And at least it isn't windy anymore.

Before I call it a night I would also like to share a video with you. This is a time lapse of our trip to Ocean City yesterday afternoon. The drive took about an hour and a half but I was able to condense it down to just under two minutes. Please take a look.

 

This was shot using my Samsung Galaxy S4 with an app called Lapse It. The basic version is free and very limited but the Pro version is just $1.99. A bargain in my opinion.

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