Anyone know if it's a full dress rehearsal on this coming Sat and next Sat?
For fireworks, it doesn't really matters where you take the shot if you are about 1-3 km away because it's high up in the sky, just make sure there's no building blocking it! It's up to your creativity, you can use a church, building, a river as a foreground/ background. I think it makes the shot more interesting! Which i'm going to try out this year. Last year was shooting from the blocks of flat at pine close! Find it too boring! So be adventurous and have fun capturing those fireworks!
Having part of the organising committee in NDP'99, a few tips for you guys
1. Take note of the timing for all the events (e.g flypast, fireworks, etc...) NDP runs like clockwork, to the precise second. Once you take note of the time, you can predict when the firework will come on, rather than holding on to your cable release for 1 hr waiting for it to happen
The timing is the same for all rehearsal, preview and actual day.
2. Usually they don't stop public from going into the stadium during the rehearsal, just don't go in a big group and make a lot of noise.
Have fun capuring NDP 2002!