Happy New Year (plus fireworks!)
Happy new year to all and sundry.
May your 2008 rock harder, be more awesome and more shiny than all your previous years combined.
Our new years was spent relaxing on the side of a hill, looking out at the city’s annual fireworks display. While our position turned out to be a tad average due to the surrounding trees and the fireworks detonating lower than expected, I still managed to end up with some great photos of the event.
If you want more (and face it, who doesn’t want more fireworks?), click here for the full set.
Oh, and for my first good deed of the year; a hint for budding photographers.
If you use UV/daylight/skylight filter on the end of your lenses (especially cheap ones used only for protection), remove them for firework shots unless you have already tested how well they do with glare, lens flare and reflections. If your filters are not glare friendly, you will probably end up with something like this.
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I don’t have any fireworks photos in my portfolio. Hopefully I can add some this year. Looks like a good way to ring in the new year.
@laanba:
Absolutely – it was a bunch of fun.
Another hint: Usually there will be some sighting shots fired, either a couple of less spectacular fireworks or from a flare gun, just before the main event. Try to get to the site early and look for these sighting shots to gauge where the fireworks are aimed and also for wind direction in case you need to make a last minute dash to a better location or to avoid the smoke.
Make sure to let me know if you manage to get some shots – I’d be more than interested in having a look!