And Then The Stars Came Raining Down…
As promised from my earlier post, some pictures from the 2006-countdown fireworks 🙂
Singaporeans are typically fireworks-mad 😛 You can expect hordes of them to arrive whenever a fireworks display is on. On New Year’s Eve, the roads were typically jammed (including the highway overlooking the Esplanade Waterfront) with cars, most of them illegally parked. It would have been ideal to have gotten some nice cityscape to complement the firework pictures. The closest I could get to the fireworks was from the Marina Park though, with the treetops acting as my only foreground. Much of the picture-taking was just clicking the shutter (with a cable-release, with the camera tripod-mounted) with differing shutter speed/aperture/ISO settings, and hoping for the best 😛
The exposure was just right but i strongly believe you can get a much better shot than this. The cropping and composition makes the pattern well framed but the other elements to complement the fireworks are not present. I don’t know what can be done about the smoke though, not a fireworks-mad person at all. =)
Thanks jcyrhs for the usual feedback 🙂 I must agree that there wasn’t much other “elements” to incorporate from the location I was at — apart from trees and lamp-posts, I didn’t have any other prominent landmark/buildings or silhouettes around to complement and frame the firework shots. And it did not help of course to have hordes of other people around although I must say that I probably had an easier time with “crowd-control” compared to those who were in the city!