Sydney NYE 2011/2012 Fireworks

[biggerry]

Anyone gonna battle the madness for some shots of the fireworks this year?

anyone got a top level CBD apartment with a stunning view they can let me into?

Anyone wanna do a timelapse video like the one City of Sydney produced last year, we need multiple locations..

[Remorhaz]

Anyone gonna battle the madness for some shots of the fireworks this year?

I'm hoping so

anyone got a top level CBD apartment with a stunning view they can let me into?

Now that would be good

Anyone wanna do a timelapse video like the one City of Sydney produced last year, we need multiple locations..

Sounds good - I could use my D90 with the intervalometer

[aim54x]

I'll probably be out and about...no apartment though.

[biggerry]

I dunno where I am gonna go, I am tossing up between Blamain, Balls head and Bradleys head.. or stay at home and drink beer...

[Remorhaz]

or stay at home and drink beer...

will you timelapse that?

[biggerry]

or stay at home and drink beer...

will you timelapse that?

I could timelapse that any day...and it still would not be pretty

I would have gone to Goat island if I got my ass into gear, the tix for that were only 175 bucks

[biggerry]

anybody out there? I swear every year the responses get less and less for teh lead up to NYE but there are always plenty of people posting pictures afterwards...

people pay large sums of money to travel around teh world to see the fireworks in sydney, yet it seems we certainly take it for granted, that said I would not cry if they used the money for teh homeless instead

[Remorhaz]

My family was maybe thinking of going to Blues Point Reserve for the show (if we can get down there early enough before they close off the area).

http://www.sydneynewyearseve.com/

http://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/

[biggerry]

My family was maybe thinking of going to Blues Point Reserve for the show (if we can get down there early enough before they close off the area).

do you know what kinda time they fill up by? I am keen to get to one of the north shore ones, but do not want to spend all day there waiting.

[Remorhaz]

do you know what kinda time they fill up by? I am keen to get to one of the north shore ones, but do not want to spend all day there waiting.

Not really - it's been many years since I've braved one of the prime locations (e.g. Mrs Mac, Blues Point). Last time I did Blues Point we were there mid afternoon and got the most prime location but that was because we were getting lots of space for a few families with children, etc.

I reckon if it's just a few individuals you can rock up much later - note that they close the roads up quite a way by 5 and 7PM so you'll have to walk in.

I don't think my whole family is going so it may just be me and maybe my eldest so we may rock up later as well.

[Remorhaz]

I went down to Blues Point for a bit of a reccy just now. I've taken a few images with different focal lengths (12mm and some with the 70-300 (140 & 70mm) on crop) to give you a bit of a feel for the potential field of view from there...

[biggerry]

premo spot Rodney, good to see you out there..

[Wink]

I really like that first one Gerry.

[Elver]

Fantastic shots as always, Gerry.

What were your settings?

[Remorhaz]

Thanks Gerry - here are a few of mine - I didn't get many keepers in mine but as it happens my favourite is not disimilar to your first as well.

What were your settings?

We were both shooting in bulb mode so fixed aperture and ISO and shutter was basically for however long you held down the remote release for. During the 9AM fireworks where there wasn't much going on the bridge and just the stuff in the middle of the harbour I could do f/9 and 5 to 15 seconds. During the midnight ones however I started at f/5.6 and pretty short at 1 to 3 seconds (because it was so fast paced (many bursts at once)) - I moved to f/8 for a while and finally out to f/11 because it was getting so bright with so many bright bursts going off on the bridge (and some of the shots were as short as 1/4 sec and still blown out).

We also took some time lapses as well (I havn't even looked at the three of mine to start processing yet - if any turns out half ok I'll upload and post it).

[aim54x]

I had a quiet night in....great to see you guys went out and got some keepers!

[biggerry]

all exif data is intact


Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 2/1 second ===> 2 second
Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 8/1 ===> ƒ/8
Exposure Program = manual control (1)
ISO Speed Ratings = 250
EXIF Version = 0230
Original Date/Time = 2011:12:31 12:01:32
Digitization Date/Time = 2011:12:31 12:01:32
Exposure Bias (EV) = 0/6 ===> 0
Max Aperture Value (APEX) = 3/1 ===> 3
Max Aperture = ƒ/2.83
Metering Mode = pattern / multi-segment (5)
Light Source / White Balance = unknown (0)
Flash = Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Focal Length = 17/1 mm ===> 17 mm
User Comment Character Code = ASCII
User Comment = (c)Gerard Blacklock 0415702740
Custom Rendered = normal process (0)
Exposure Mode = manual exposure (1)
White Balance = auto (0)
Digital Zoom Ratio = 1/1 ===> 1
Focal Length in 35mm Film = 25

[zafra52]

Spectacular photography, thanks guys.

[Elver]

Thanks for all the information guys that's great. Well done.