bristol harbour festival - mainly dissapointing
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this weekend has been the big and extravagant harbour festival in bristol to celebrate the ports role in the history of bristol culminating on saturday in a spectacular fireworks display, so i thought i would go out in an attempt to capture some of this.
unfortunatley most of the results are a bit of a dissapointment and definitely one to rack up to experience to help me learn. there were a couple that i liked though from different areas.
here are some of the fireworks ones:
things that i have learnt from these pics:
take an umbrella. it didnt look like it was going to rain when i left home but many of the shots are ruined by rain on the lense which i couldnt really block
get down very early to pick your spot. i was trying to find somewhere to have an interesting foreground but couldnt because of too many tall people and annoying umbrellas
ISO 200 is probably too low for fireworks, even with a 5 second exposure as the individual fireworks arent very bright in any one spot for very long
dont be too close to the action. i missed quite a lot of shots because i couldnt cover enough of the sky.
try not to break your tripod half way through the show (i overtightened the tilt release meaning that i couldnt fix it till 20 minutes after the fireworks finished.)
next year if i am here i dont think i will be going down to the crowded harbour for the fireworks. instead i will pick a nice spot on top of the multi-story car park 1 minutes walk from my house as it is a nice distance from the fireworks and means that i will have no annoying public to contend with.
now, onto some other pictures i took. these are all just experiments as i have never tried anything like this. these three were taken after the fireworks with my tripod. not really sure if i like the first one but it is interesting. i quite like the 2nd and 3rd ones although they too are slightly spoilt by rain.
these 2 were taken on the friday without my tripod. the first one is of DJ Derek who is a 70something year old DJ in bristol who is actually very good. quite happy with the result seeing as it was handheld at 1/25sec (although it does have quite a lot of noise on it)
this one is again just an experiment, but seeing as it was handheld at 1/5sec i dont think its too bad. i would like to go back with a tripod for this one.
ps, why do people get stressy if you are taking pictures of them without their permission, but try and jump infront of your lense if you arent shooting them?
so, any constructive criticism, or points to learn that i havent stated?
cheers
chris
unfortunatley most of the results are a bit of a dissapointment and definitely one to rack up to experience to help me learn. there were a couple that i liked though from different areas.
here are some of the fireworks ones:
things that i have learnt from these pics:
take an umbrella. it didnt look like it was going to rain when i left home but many of the shots are ruined by rain on the lense which i couldnt really block
get down very early to pick your spot. i was trying to find somewhere to have an interesting foreground but couldnt because of too many tall people and annoying umbrellas
ISO 200 is probably too low for fireworks, even with a 5 second exposure as the individual fireworks arent very bright in any one spot for very long
dont be too close to the action. i missed quite a lot of shots because i couldnt cover enough of the sky.
try not to break your tripod half way through the show (i overtightened the tilt release meaning that i couldnt fix it till 20 minutes after the fireworks finished.)
next year if i am here i dont think i will be going down to the crowded harbour for the fireworks. instead i will pick a nice spot on top of the multi-story car park 1 minutes walk from my house as it is a nice distance from the fireworks and means that i will have no annoying public to contend with.
now, onto some other pictures i took. these are all just experiments as i have never tried anything like this. these three were taken after the fireworks with my tripod. not really sure if i like the first one but it is interesting. i quite like the 2nd and 3rd ones although they too are slightly spoilt by rain.
these 2 were taken on the friday without my tripod. the first one is of DJ Derek who is a 70something year old DJ in bristol who is actually very good. quite happy with the result seeing as it was handheld at 1/25sec (although it does have quite a lot of noise on it)
this one is again just an experiment, but seeing as it was handheld at 1/5sec i dont think its too bad. i would like to go back with a tripod for this one.
ps, why do people get stressy if you are taking pictures of them without their permission, but try and jump infront of your lense if you arent shooting them?
so, any constructive criticism, or points to learn that i havent stated?
cheers
chris
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