MK - Fireworks Shows (Current and Past)

An oldie - 2007 Wishes:
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I became trapped trying to get out of the park before Happily Ever After started, but got frozen in completely unmoving crowd, and was forced to stay there and watch. So I took a few handheld shots of the show, with people in the shot and all, and with nothing but my 18-55mm kit lens on at the time:
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so this year many of us went back to the old standby, lovingly known as pixelmania point, established our claim and held the ground against more than just a couple of infiltration attempts. i got some ok shots, had to crop all of them, during processing i finally got wise and batch cropped, which usually works since all the shots were from the non moved tripod, with a prime lens so no focal changes. i'm mostly happy with the lightroom preset, this one i made a few years ago, it's one of 3 i have, fireworks basic, fireworks hallowishes, and fireworks illuminations. unlike a lot of my walt disney world specific presets, many of which i had to tweak this year, some a lot, some a little, since many were made when i was shooting the r3 and r4 bodies. the A1 seems to process color a little truer to what i remember the scene as, so i had to adjust, particularly exposure for many. dennis, did you tweak your camera settings or a preset at all??

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@gary I use Photoshop Elements, so I have no experience with presets. For the most recent batch of fireworks photos I opened the each photo in the stripped-down version of Camera Raw that comes with Elements and click Auto to let the program make its best guess at a perfect exposure. That usually results in a gross overexposure at night, which I manually correct, but everything else looks halfway decent. I tweak as necessary If needed, I also adjust the color temperature - I find that something around 3000+/-500 looks good to my eye.
 
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