Every year Lakeside puts on a fantastic Chinese new year show with lots of live acts, culminating in a massive firework display. Here are a few of my favourite pictures from this year. If you want to see the whole set, it’s on my flickr account.
For most of the evening, i was just shooting handheld using P mode (basically automatic where you can override certain features - bascially all I overrode was focussing (i like it centre only, so I can plan it) and raw output. The top shot is a 3 shot HDR and the bottom one just a long exposure with a tripod, with some tweaking to brighten up the bottom of the frame in post processing so the crowd is visible.
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Hey - Dan some nice shots from the event - the dance lift photograph was one that I shot at the same time but I think you got a better angle - I posted a few on pbase - but it’s just a start - it will take a while to work through them!
http://www.pbase.com/kaparu2/lakesidechinanewyear09
best wishes Kev
Oooyah - you swine - yours are amazing. Particularly
http://www.pbase.com/kaparu2/image/108772613
and
http://www.pbase.com/kaparu2/image/108772619
Wonderfully crisp. What shutter speed were you on? 1/125 ish?
Hi Dan, amzaing photos you took. I’m trying to use HDR, and wondering how you use HDR on fireworks. How to make a shape-changing object looks so noise-free in HDR version?
Hi Peter
Simple answer on that one I’m afraid - only the top picture here is HDR. The firework pic, if I remember rightly, was a single long exposure with a flash fired at the end to get some detail in the crowd.
Actually.. that shot’s on flickr, too, so you can see the exif data here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsebat/3246008870/meta/
It’s possible to process single files in photomatix, and I have seen some people get good effects that way, but it’s not something I’ve ever had any good results doing. As a raw file does contain quite a lot more data than a flat JPG would, you can pull a little more detail out like that, but obviously not as much as with multiple raws.