The end of summer comes and firework shows spring up all over Japan. This one was in Marugame, Shikoku, Japan. I love taking pictures of fireworks using the focus shifting and lensblur techniques. I used a canon 5d mkii, Nikkor manual zoom lens, tripod and remote.

When using special techniques such as Focus shifting you get some very impressive results. Usually I'm not satisfied with normal fire work photography as getting a good shoot location is difficult. But I enjoy taking these ones more.

In post process all i did was blacken the blacks, gave the colours more vibrancy and evened the highlights.

As always fireworks shows in Japan are amazing, this one lasted about an hour and were pretty close. These fireworks were shot off a barge at sea and everyone gathered in the docks to watch.

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