Richard Davis is an International Photographer based in Katy, Texas. Katy, a former rice farming community and oilfield, is now more commonly viewed as a suburb 25 miles west of Houston.
Originally from Swindon in England, from an early age Richard wanted to travel. With a degree in Geophysics, he entered the oil exploration industry which, over the next 11 years, took him to live and work in Libya, South Africa, Brunei, Libya (again), Tunisia, Dubai, and Oman.
A change of track then brought him to the United States to lead a hazardous waste remediation project and that led into an IT Management career. While in Houston he met and married his wife, Karen. Richard's IT Management career took them to Paris, France, where they lived for two years before returning to Houston in early 2000.
In addition to his library of slide and print images from around the world, Richard went fully digital in 2006 when Canon introduced the EOS 5D and has continued to extend his digital image library. He uses a range of cameras but his current favorite remains the Canon EOS 5D Mk II.
Richard takes on a broad range of subjects and his images have appeared in corporate publications, local magazines and various web sites.
Richard lives with his wife Karen, of Karen Davis Design, and their two children (and 3 fish).
by Richard Davis
Thanks for the great information. I shot fireworks for the first time last night and brought your directions with me. They were a great help! I will surely use them as reference for the rest of the summer.
My first time out of the box on fireworks (2009), I nailed it on long shutter speeds and continuous exposure, and of course a tripod … Last year and this year, the results were far less gratifying. Your approach never occurred to me and I will set up one camera to attempt this strategy next shoot. Thanks very much.
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Best of luck.
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Thanks for this article. Very helpful.