On last Saturday, I went out with Marshall and Elfred for the NDP2010 NE2 fireworks photography at Marina Bay area. This was just a NDP rehearsal, officials said the fireworks on NE is just 10% of the total fireworks to be set off on actual day. Too bad NDP that day, we will be at Cameron Highlands.

In the next few following weeks, there will be still fireworks. So don’t miss it.

  • NE3 – 24 July 2010
  • Preview Parada – 31 July 2010
  • (of course!) NDP 2010 – 9 Aug 2010

We set up our tripod and camera in front Esplanade around 7:45pm. The first fireworks was quite short, just a few bursts. Turn out that we were consider too near to the fireworks! Above photo I managed to get the Marina Sands inside, but the firework was cropped.

At the same spot, after slightly angle adjustment to my camera and we had waited another half an hour. Finally, the final round fireworks started. It was a 3-minutes long fireworks. Hm.. Imagine the actual NDP will have a 30 minutes long fireworks show.

What does this look like? Is this suppose to be mimosa?

For the first time, I have the chance to use my remote shuttle release. Just a few tips I gained from fireworks shooting.

  • Use lower ISO – 100 and 200
  • My exposure time was around 4 ~ 8 seconds
  • Take as many photos as you could in the early time, because later the sky will get smoky.
  • Choose a nicer spot! We unfortunately too near too the fireworks scene. Can’t get the beautiful buildings such as Marina Sands into it.
  • We found that the Marina Promenade is a nice spot to take the photos of the fireworks and city buildings.
  • Ensure you have enough battery. Of course that day my battery didn’t fail on me. But imagine if you are shooting on the actual NDP with 30 minutes long of fireworks.
  • Do homework first, know where the fireworks deployed location. Below the NDP2010 fireworks animation. Look out for the fireworks deployed from the top of buildings too.

 

Guess we will go down again for NE3 and Preview Parade.

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