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Our family along with some other friends went to North Sydney Olympic Pool for the earlier 9PM family fireworks. It's located just at the edge of the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge pilon and almost directly under the fireworks in the harbour and off the bridge.

As always I'd love to hear any feedback, comments, suggestions or critique... and sorry I know I went a bit over the max images in a post - just wanted to include the background images with the fireworks - please indulge me ...

A couple images near sunset...


NIKON D90 + 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 112 mm, 1/2000 sec at f / 8, ISO 200

The harbour in twilight...


NIKON D90 + 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 32 mm, 1.3 sec at f / 9, ISO 200

My first attempt at taking fireworks photos with a D-SLR...


NIKON D90 + 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 48 mm, 2.7 sec at f / 11, ISO 200

For the midnight fireworks display my eldest daughter and I drove to a spot in Greenwich. This is quite a bit further away from the harbour but it does allow you to view multiple displays from the same location. We also switched to the 70-300mm lens for this.

The view with the Sydney CBD in the background.


NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 7.3 sec at f / 11, ISO 200

Two of my favourites from the night...


NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 3.5 sec at f / 16, ISO 200


NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 4.2 sec at f / 16, ISO 200

Rodney, you grabbed some great captures, I hope it wasnt anywhere near as crowded as it was in the city where i was.

I really like #1, its an image that definitely grabs my attention and makes me go searching for the story behind it. Definitely my favourite of the lot.

Definately some keepers there Rodney.

I actually like #1 and # 2, #2 is great, just wish I didn't have the top as a distraction, but yeah I liked it, great effort, I have never shot fireworks before and IMO i think you did a fantastic job! keep it up can't wait to see more shots in the future!

aim54x wrote:Rodney, you grabbed some great captures, I hope it wasnt anywhere near as crowded as it was in the city where i was.

I really like #1, its an image that definitely grabs my attention and makes me go searching for the story behind it. Definitely my favourite of the lot.

Thanks - it's presold tickets at Nth Syd pool with restricted entry so the numbers are controlled and thus not crowded which is good.

bigsarg7 wrote:I actually like #1 and # 2, #2 is great, just wish I didn't have the top as a distraction, but yeah I liked it, great effort, I have never shot fireworks before and IMO i think you did a fantastic job! keep it up can't wait to see more shots in the future!

#1 (and the last fireworks one) are my favourites. I took quite a few with the fire tugboat.

Yeah I wasn't sure whether the framing of the image with the bottom of the bridge was going to work or not (not that I had much option given it was physically there and I couldn't move at my end) - I'm still not sure...

The last two fireworks shots are crackers, very clean crisp images, you have done well to avoid the smoke in these shots! Were these at the start of the set or midway thru?

as far as fireworks shots go, you won't much better than that I reckon

biggerry wrote:The last two fireworks shots are crackers, very clean crisp images, you have done well to avoid the smoke in these shots! Were these at the start of the set or midway thru?

Yeah - I think I lucked out and had the wind blowing the smoke away from me perhaps?

The EXIF timestamp puts them at 12:08 (and 12:01 for the very first one I took at midnight) so I'm probably only out by a minute or two and that probably those two at about midway through?

I think the last is the pick of the crop. Nicely captured. I'm not a great one for crowds so I'll stay up on the north coast for NYE!