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NYC July 4 2009 Fireworks on the Hudson River

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New York City July 4 2009 Fireworks on the Hudson River.

Shot from Weehawken, New Jersey for NYC coastal background. You can see both the Chrysler (lights in chevron shape) and Empire State building (red, white and blue lights) generally on the right side on longer shots.

This was the first ever NYC July 4 display on the Hudson. Normally on the East River (Brooklyn/Manhattan vs New Jersey/Manhattan) it was relocated this year due to the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's sail up what was to become the Hudson River.

You can see how the height of the fireworks from the six barges dwarfed the buildings. At times I shot immersively (close up) and at other times across several of the barges so the viewer gets a full sense of enormity of the display. The span between lowest to highest explosions were so great it was often hard to keep all in frame.

At the end of the display 2 barges caught fire. It lasted about 30 minutes. I include short excerpts here. You'll see the fire, small works explosions, fire boat approach and spray, inspection with light, hear the sirens in the background as the departing spectators were unaware (unobservent). There were no news reports of this.

Shot with Sony XDCAM EX HD EX1 F1.9, Gain -3db, Matrix HiSat, Cinegamma 4, 1080p30.
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Rico Bergholdt Hansen    August 15, 2009 09:43 AM
Crazy good quality :) and the downloaded file is even better... It's amazing how light sensitive the EX1 is even at -3db. I'm guessing that you filled up an 8gb card to get these 30 minutes? Does the EX1 cut the files at every gigabite or is this saved as one big file? Obviously, when you zoom, the aperture gets smaller, so did it change the gain? or how is that controlled? Does shooting at 60fps take up more space on the card or is it still compressed to 35mbps? Was this manual focus or autofocus? How does the autofocus cope at low light? Is this straight from the cam or did you do something to it in post?

Craig Seeman    August 15, 2009 11:10 AM
Shot using 32GB Sandisk Ultra 2 SDHC card in MxR adaptor so two cards can record a total of nearly 4 hours straight if needed.

Cards are always FAT32 so they are 4GB each file but they are joined as single continuous file by Sony XDCAM Transfer utility when importing into Final Cut Pro.

EX1 holds aperture through the zoom. F1.9 end to end. Some report a slight lose in sensitivity but it was noticeable even in this low light situation.

Camera always shoots at 35mbps at all XDCAM frame rates and sizes. It is higher if one overcranks.

Focus is manual. I never use auto.

Straight from camera. I edited the fire at the end since that went on for another half our and watching fire boats maneuver is like watching paint dry. They were very slow an cautious.



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