The process for getting these shots has been talked about in other posts, but this is shot with twin Hasselblads outfitted with 150mm lenses and separated by 40 feet. They are taken from the roof of a building owned by one of my best friends, and I have the roof to myself. That’s helpful because the cameras are tethered by a wired remote and I wouldn’t want someone tripping over a cord and killing 2 Hasselblads. That wouldn’t do.

The cameras are aimed into the sky during the day. This usually works out well, but last year I got burned. The cameras were aimed normally high but the fireworks were set off abnormally low. So I got almost nothing. This year I’m planning to shoot with a wider lens to capture more of the entire scene, and I’m in the process of running tests on those lenses to see if they match.