Probably my last firework photo for a while! This was the third and final night of the Celebration of Light fireworks competition in Vancouver, featuring Italy. Note the bottom three bursts are in the colours of the Italian flag (albeit backwards, as I'm viewing from the 'wrong' side).
The show was quite smoky compared to Wednesday's performance, so only the early photos came out very well - the smoke was at times so thick that the firework bursts would actually disappear as they passed behind it!
This is a three-shot panorama, cropped down to closer to two photos. The fireworks barge is moored in English Bay, to the left, with the buildings of downtown Vancouver visible across the photo. The tall building at the right is the Shangri-La hotel, the tallest building in Vancouver. Beyond the city are the North Shore mountains.
This was taken from the imaginatively-named Point Grey Park Site on Point Grey road in Kitsilano. The Vancouver Parks website describes it as '...an opportunity for quiet contemplation', although many also took it as 'an opportunity to kick my tripod whilst taking photos with their iPhone'.
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Totally fab! Love how there's basically a light show at each side of the frame. Shame about you getting in the way of real photographers with your tripod... ;)
P.S. Best tag ever!
@humphreyhippo This really was just an excuse to take a shot of downtown Vancouver at the blue hour -- it just happened to coincide with some fireworks ;)
The light on the Shangri-La is great, it's reflecting the orange glow of the sky post-sunset in the west.
Im very happy that there is Vancouverites that religiously go and capture the fireworks! As always, fascinating! This time you made it to the "books" putting your fireworks as the Rule of Third and yet giving a panoramic nite-photo! WOW! My FAV!
@onie Thank you! Be careful -- this is 20 seconds to expose for the city skyline, and this was an isolated burst of fireworks (actually a 5 minute warning for the main show starting, but don't tell anyone!)
20 seconds will be too long if fireworks are going up constantly -- for that I'd use between 2 and 4 seconds, ideally on bulb mode with a remote shutter if you have one (this opens the shutter for as long as you hold the button, so you can judge when you've captured enough bursts)
P.S. Best tag ever!
The light on the Shangri-La is great, it's reflecting the orange glow of the sky post-sunset in the west.
I learnt my tagging from the expert...!
20 seconds will be too long if fireworks are going up constantly -- for that I'd use between 2 and 4 seconds, ideally on bulb mode with a remote shutter if you have one (this opens the shutter for as long as you hold the button, so you can judge when you've captured enough bursts)
Thanks for that Alex. I did wonder about that... Now just have to wait for some fireworks!!