Glowing bright and beautiful in the darkness of night
The Lunar New Year arrives this Sunday…
It is customary for all Chinese families to sit down for Reunion Dinner on New Year’s Eve. I’ll be having mine one day earlier this time round as I will be at work this Saturday. I will definitely be at home on New Year’s Day （年åˆä¸€ï¼‰ to receive hongbaos (last year for me to receive them before I start giving them out in 2007 ;)). In the meantime, here’s a picture from the cheery decorations around Chinatown 🙂
Another fireworks shot from the 2006 Countdown display at the Esplanade…
I wish that I had better a better foreground/background to complement the lightshow. Tree-tops were the best I could find at the Marina Park 😛 It wasn’t easy getting a good exposure since the fireworks kept coming all the time: I was down to using f/22 and ISO 100 on my 20D. Despite that, it was difficult to get an exposure longer than 1.5 to 2 seconds to capture the light-trials. In the cases where I was able to rack-up the shutter speed to more than 2 seconds, the shots were spoilt because a flurry of new fireworks would have already shot into the frame. Fireworks aren’t exactly my favourite photography subjects 😛
As promised from my earlier post, some pictures from the 2006-countdown fireworks 🙂
Singaporeans are typically fireworks-mad 😛 You can expect hordes of them to arrive whenever a fireworks display is on. On New Year’s Eve, the roads were typically jammed (including the highway overlooking the Esplanade Waterfront) with cars, most of them illegally parked. It would have been ideal to have gotten some nice cityscape to complement the firework pictures. The closest I could get to the fireworks was from the Marina Park though, with the treetops acting as my only foreground. Much of the picture-taking was just clicking the shutter (with a cable-release, with the camera tripod-mounted) with differing shutter speed/aperture/ISO settings, and hoping for the best 😛