Checking Out The Competition

Checking Out The Competition
I have not managed to find a guestblogger for this week. If you are interested to be a guestblogger (or would like to nominate someone), send me a contact!

For the meantime, it’s back to the dragonboat competition shoot that I did a couple of months ago. I wonder what the drummer was thinking as he peered across at the other rival boats. The rest of team seemed to be all set to go though, judging from the way their oars are placed at ready. I love the reflections in the dark green water, which provided a nice backdrop to the shot.

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down 2…

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down 2�
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 😛

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down…

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down...
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 😛