Fireworks Fest 07' - Team Spain

It was a pretty wonderful experience to be able to shoot the fireworks fest from the panoramic view @ tanjong rhu, except for the fact that the team decided to concentrate majority, if not almost all of their bursts to be closer to the skyline then to the platform... It was a drizzly overcast evening, but thankfully the rain stopped at 7...
Thankfully got a life from Cecil, and hiked there with him and Eric(edgedale) for around 15 minutes to grab a pretty nice spot... Setup shop on the less-wet rocks there, and realised my tripod doesn't actually allow you to go very low... Was taught on how to do manual focusing by Cecil, and spent like 70 shots zeroing in on several buildings till I eventually got the sharpest that I could with my relatively old 300D...

Decided on the settings of 5-6seconds of exposure per shot, F/11, and Iso 100 of course, the widest lens I had was the 28-135mm IS USM, shot at the widest focal length... I guess its a tricky part now knowing how the team would organise their shots to appear... otherwise I would have scoped in closer...

Anyway, team Spain was relatively conservative I think? or maybe they're just saving up for the internationals in Malaysia in a week's time... Alot of low level sprays and bursts, and there were several moments went everyone went "tio con!" opening our shutters to realise that they were just gonna do a whole stretch of low level sprays... Heh, we ended up speculating that Team China would probably do better cos they have cheaper fireworks and cos they better practice hard for the beijing olympics...

This is the first batch, out of a total of over 120+ shots, not including the zeroing ones which would total it to 180+ for the whole night's shoot..

RED was a dominant colour that night =)

Images are best viewed large, from the flickr gallery... and my humble apologies if it takes some time to load... but it'll be worth it =)



One of my favourites... and one of their largest releases... Burn da launchas amigos!

This one's distinctly green tipped and shot individually...





This trio is spectacular... distinctly shot and it opens up to a very nice "saturn" like spread..

This is a distinctly large bouquet... not too messy, and very nice streaks...





This is one of the more intense releases, very nicely shot with bits of stardust around it...

This one's a very distinct bouquet, where you can see the individual bursts, nicely framed with stardust again...





Purple-pink is one of the rarer colours seen... beautiful !

Orange bursts with purple tips... breathtaking... its a good colour combination in my opinion...





This is how they look, in the early stage before a full blast... nice streaks...

Nice framing idea, a little strange cos of the green rain behind it, but still spectacular =)





This one's a beautiful spread to end it all off for this batch, a shower of diverse colours...

I'll be post processing more if there's time in the week, and yes, my Moo cards are here! =)