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Thunder Over Louisville
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Joe Goff (papajoehermit)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 142 W: 51 N: 208]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (1180) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 1994-04 |
| Categories: Decisive Moment |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 8 seconds |
| Details: Tripod: Yes |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-05-13 18:53 |
| Viewed: 197 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This fireworks photograph of the Louisville, KY skyline was used on billboards, newspaper and media print advertising in 1995 to celebrate the kickoff of the Kentucky Derby festival events two weeks before the running of the Kentucky Derby. This fireworks event started in 1990 to announce the beginning of the KY Derby festival. To date, the show has become the largest fireworks display in the world lasting 30 minutes, at a cost of between three and four million dollars. It attracts crowds, depending on the weather, of as much as 750,000 people who line both banks of the Ohio River in Louisville and southern Indiana.
I used a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 Mamiya Pro film camera, 100 speed Kodak film at a bulb setting, f/5.6. Tripod: YES! This was a compilation of four different exposures lasting approximately two seconds each I did by covering up the lens with a piece of black cardboard, and uncovering the lens at the precise moment of the explosions. Lucky shot?? Not really. I planned it that way. This was the best of about eight different frames shot in pretty much the same way. I dare anybody to try that with a digital camera. Although present day photos of this event shot with digital cameras are pretty extraordinary. |
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 310 W: 0 N: 361]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-n-g.gif)
(1972) - [2009-05-14 1:08]
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Hi Joe,
Prety amazing shot for the way it was composed, we are loosing a lot of old skills developed with 35mm but developing new ones with digital. TFS a lost art
Bri
