CNY 2003 Fireworks

taicw · 1st February 2003

Decided to go down last minute at 1130, managed to set up just a minute before the fireworks went off, crowd was thin and weather was good. Lasted about 10+ mins.

Rest of the pics can be view at following

http://www.pbase.com/taicw/fireworks

PentiumPC · 1st February 2003

Nice captures, 1 and are rather generic...(I mean the type of fireworks.)

No. 3 seems to have some camers shake???

No. 4 is really nice... like umberalla or flowers in the air.

That my 2-cents worth....

DeepZpace · 1st February 2003

Yes agree. 4 is indeed very nice.

Garion · 1st February 2003

Wow nice pics taicw....I like 1, 3 and 4 best!!! And yes I too rushed down there last minute...also managed to set up juz a few mins b4 the fireworks went off...managed to take abt 20 shots...the fireworks lasted longer than expected heheh. And thank goodness the rain stopped just in time for the fireworks to take place.

Pics will be up soon...

taicw · 1st February 2003

Thanks Garion. Yeah, left my home around 11:30pm, was just in time there. Fire works was longer than Friday night's. Was at benjamin sheares, but coz of the heavy traffic around 8pm, the bridge was vibrating quite a bit, most of my shots came out blurred.

The 3rd pic prob had a bit of shake coz i wasn't using my remote. Was frantically snapping with my digital cam and winding & snapping with my manual 35mm cam using slides. Probably hit the digital shutter too hard

Garion · 1st February 2003

Wow u mean u had 2 cams to take at once...thats kinda tough dude...to alternate between 2 cams in such a short span of time and snap frantically away...now I understand why some of your shots came out blurred...heheh...anyways good try! I too was snapping away like crazy...one big negative point about digicams is the long lag time when writing to the CF card...missed some nice big ones when this happened....

Wai · 1st February 2003

love the forth one....too bad i was badly positioned....my shots still in the slide...haven't develop...

sehsuan · 1st February 2003

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Originally posted by taicw
Thanks Garion. Yeah, left my home around 11:30pm, was just in time there. Fire works was longer than Friday night's. Was at benjamin sheares, but coz of the heavy traffic around 8pm, the bridge was vibrating quite a bit, most of my shots came out blurred.

The 3rd pic prob had a bit of shake coz i wasn't using my remote. Was frantically snapping with my digital cam and winding & snapping with my manual 35mm cam using slides. Probably hit the digital shutter too hard

the bridge itself was vibrating? WOAH! stay on the main land, folks!

denizenx · 1st February 2003

sounds dumb but can use towel or newspapers to dampen when there's no grass... IF you're really hardcore..

anyway love the one with the glowing starfishies...

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shawntim · 2nd February 2003

it's 2003 not 2002.. your watermarks all wrong..

fuhyong · 5th February 2003

good efforts. I know how difficult it is to take good fireworks photo having tried a few times myself.

You never know what will be coming up and you just have to burn away. I suppose nowadays with digital cameras, it is somewhat less heartache.

Personally, I prefer to include a bit of the foreground to establish the locality or occasion when I shoot fireworks. I feel fireworks picture by themselves only work if they are very graphic in nature like your pic 4. almost abstract.

of course these are just my own opinion, coming from someone who hasn't seen too much success with my own shots. ha ha

1st February 2003	#1
taicw Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Northen Singapore Posts: 390	CNY 2003 Fireworks Decided to go down last minute at 1130, managed to set up just a minute before the fireworks went off, crowd was thin and weather was good. Lasted about 10+ mins. Rest of the pics can be view at following http://www.pbase.com/taicw/fireworks

1st February 2003	#7
Wai Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South Pole with Penguins Posts: 5,133	love the forth one....too bad i was badly positioned....my shots still in the slide...haven't develop... __________________ We are HDD of PC & FT are MB add to storage; so PC never hangs with enormous storage capacity - LKY

1st February 2003	#2
PentiumPC Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 375	Nice captures, 1 and are rather generic...(I mean the type of fireworks.) No. 3 seems to have some camers shake??? No. 4 is really nice... like umberalla or flowers in the air. That my 2-cents worth....

1st February 2003	#3
DeepZpace Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 67	Yes agree. 4 is indeed very nice.

1st February 2003	#4
Garion Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: West side of S'pore Posts: 5,516	Wow nice pics taicw....I like 1, 3 and 4 best!!! And yes I too rushed down there last minute...also managed to set up juz a few mins b4 the fireworks went off...managed to take abt 20 shots...the fireworks lasted longer than expected heheh. And thank goodness the rain stopped just in time for the fireworks to take place. Pics will be up soon...

2nd February 2003	#10
shawntim Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 472	it's 2003 not 2002.. your watermarks all wrong..

5th February 2003	#11
fuhyong Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 58	good efforts. I know how difficult it is to take good fireworks photo having tried a few times myself. You never know what will be coming up and you just have to burn away. I suppose nowadays with digital cameras, it is somewhat less heartache. Personally, I prefer to include a bit of the foreground to establish the locality or occasion when I shoot fireworks. I feel fireworks picture by themselves only work if they are very graphic in nature like your pic 4. almost abstract. of course these are just my own opinion, coming from someone who hasn't seen too much success with my own shots. ha ha