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Bread Photo Essay - January 2007 New Year fireworks |
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This is one of the unsatisfactory
pictures I took last year (midnight 2005/2006). I thought I had found a
good location almost at the water's edge a few hundred metres east of
the Esplanade Theatres. I wanted to capture the fireworks against a
backdrop formed by the financial district and so I positioned the tripod
to face the middle of the bay, with the downtown across the water as
background. It turned out that the fireworks went almost straight up, instead of over water. I had to quickly swing my camera to the left, leaving the skyscrapers of the financial district out of the frame, getting a tree instead. I was also too close to the fireworks: thus they often bloomed too high, with the branches and leaves in the way, and with too much smoke visible. Many others thought it was a good spot too. When the fireworks started, the crowd surged forward and camera, tripod and me nearly tumbled into the water (there were no barriers). People started moving in front of the lens too, despite the wet slope (see head, bottom right). |
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