Paul's Fireworks

Here's a lovely piece of correspondence I got recently from one of my former students, Paul Adams. Look at the extra detail Paul managed to squeeze out of his picture from the RAW file! Excellent stuff Paul, and thanks for staying in touch!

Dear Andrew

Thanks to you I am getting the hang of this game!

Gear set up and timings tested, I took this image and uploaded it with 3
others to the Portsmouth News within 15 mins of the Gunwharf fireworks show
finishing. Captioned 'Pictures of Gunwharf fireworks 2 Nov 20.00hrs from
above Gosport showing harbour foreground'. Then I phoned the newsdesk who
brought up the images, liked this one and agreed a credit (no money, but
there...) and it was in the paper the next morning at 15x11.5 cm with the
Caption 'Lit up - Paul Adams took this great picture from Rope Quays in
Gosport'.  I did not have the computer with PhotoShop with me so sent the JPEG
straight from camera ... subsequently I have brought out more detail from
the RAW file as in the xxx+.jpg and would have preferred for that to be
published. As it was, mine proved to be a better image than a collection
from their own man in a double page spread of 10 images!

No money but a result, teaching me that the process matters as much, if not
more, than the picture! Next time I will rename the image file to make it
more identifiable.

Thanks for your inspiration!

Kind regards

Paul