Great - it looks like an oriental ink on parchment type painting!

Jennifer is absolutely right, it's definitely different. I do like your shot from last year, and I think that fireworks shots can be successful, but I'm excited to see what you can come up with regardless.

Jennifer is right, very oriental looking. I've tried inverting shots too - I felt it worked for me too. It's obviously a very rough way of processing an image, but I guess people who want to see the "real" thing can just copy your image and invert it back in Photoshop... And don't forget to delete the file afterwards, of course... :)

I had to smile with your commentry regarding fireworks, Generally they bore me to tears but I look forward to a Chromasia take on them

Just like you I was getting bored with regular firework shots, especially when the surrounding area isn't interesting. During the last 4th of July celebration, I decided to experiment by changing the zoom and moving the camera during the exposure. The results were quite interesting as you can see here:

http://www.digitalapoptosis.com/archives/carolina/000939.html

There was me thinking that it was some strange genus of dandelion!

THe person above it right i regarda to the oriental style painting - I like it.

The fireworks remind me of sea urchins, that remind me of stingreys, that remind me of Steve Irwin - the man was a legend.

Great shot, looking forward to more

Awful is being kind

I knew you would come up with something different! Hard to believe we were side by side when you look at my effort.
I must try this it is a very interesting effect. Well done.

Fireworks are shot into the air for their beauty. I really don't appreciate this.

Great conversion, rare picture.
nice job

Has a nice delicate quality about it.

These are really cool. Your post processing has turned this shot into a work of art. At first glance I thought these looked like some sort of spikey grass heads. Nicely done.

Cool. Very original take on an overdone subject.

I find the best fireworks shots always have something else in the frame, like a building, a statue, or a body of water and a bridge. Is there a structure nearby that you can work into the frame along with the fireworks?

These are cool :) Good work on post processing !!

Nice shot Dave -- this is definitely a method I'm going to experiment with.

I laughed at your firework photo blahs comment too. :-) This works for me. I like that you are willing to try something different. You could also try zooming way in and going for a more abstract picture. Fireworks look pretty cool really close up. Have fun!

In reply to geckonia's comment about zooming in and out, here's what I had that you can try =)

http://www.xanga.com/Anvi/521303430/item.html
and
http://www.xanga.com/Anvi/518045128/item.html

the only post processing on there is color temperature =)

A great image and an original treatment of the subject. If you hadn't said it was fireworks I would have assumed I was looking at some sort of natural history macro shot. The colours and balance work well.

Thats a great picture David and nice to see a new take on something that is so popular. Would make a perfect subject for the tutorials!!

cool fireworks.

How creative... Beautifuly done...

Methink your innovative attempt has been fairly successful. :)

Very interesting as an abstract shot... the inversion has worked nicely.

You have a point. This shot, when I opened it, took me awhile to realize what I was looking at. This is much more visually interesting than a straight shot.

I've been checking out this site for quite some time now and think it is one of the best photoblogs out there. I've learned much from you but never commented. Thanks.

I have to admit I was a little "concerned" when you mentioned you were going to be taking some fireworks pictures. I originally come from a flickr community where they show up daily and have never done it for me. It is nice to see a chromasian spin on it and I now look forward to seeing the future shots over the next three weeks after seeing this. Thanks for not being scared to try something simply because YOU want to ... good example.

At first, I thought it was a tattoo.. very different.

I like the inversion. Gives the fireworks a soft touch. When you mentioned fireworks, I was expecting the typical fireworks with the black background (which is beautiful but over done by many photographers) but I should have known better! Nice work.

Very unique, love the inverted colours!

I agree with your assessment of fireworks photos. They're fun to take while the display is happening, but the results never seem to measure up. Probably something to do with the "gee, wow" factor (and let's not forget the sound effects) that we experience when we're sitting outside watching it happen. We've been conditioned too since youth by coutless exposures to great displays and it's tough to compete with that mental imagery. Nice effort though.

nice effect, looks like a faded dandelion. cool colors

Interesting effect. It looks a bit like a drawing. I know what you mean about fireworks shots, though. They're either crap (because they're badly taken) or, if they're well taken, they're just.. well, fireworks shots. Whenever I get chance to take fireworks I always try to get some people, foreground or landscape in with it too - it's the only way to make the standard firework shot more interesting (other than processing it out of all recognition :)

wow, what a great idea....and im pissed that i never thought about it!!!

Thanks all.

Don't know how they look for real, but the image is absolubtly stunning. They seem like drandelions to me. :) Nice

Nicely reminiscent of colour darkroom experiments by Wolfgang Tillmans. (Not the best example: http://artissima.it/images/Image_catalogo/935797F5C7962460278.jpg)

(Long time viewer, first time commenter.)

nice.. different and creative..

definatly got something interesting out of this firework image. Looks almost like a japanese painting.

very nice

great. i've never seen an image of fireworks like this before. really great job!
regards

Nice imagination. Really creative

A very interesting result, it creates an oriental feel. I would agree with your opinion on fireworks, my better results have always come from reinterpreting the colours .