I hope everyone had a good Australia Day last weekend. We were down at Mindarie Marina covering their celebrations and had a great time. It was pretty busy down there, but nothing compared to the chaos in the city and we got to walk straight past all the stationary traffic in the way home 🙂
Before the fireworks started we had dinner and a pint at the Indi, I just love having a micro brewery with great beer right on the doorstep 🙂
I must admit that fireworks are not my favourite thing in the world but it was interesting experimenting with taking pics of them. As I haven’t taken any firework shots for many years (way before digital) I was interested to see how they would come out and I was pleasantly surprised.
Here are a few samples, let me know what you think:
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Nice shots Dave, I got some from Nedlands, but they were too far away.
What I’d love to see is a big pano of the city with fireworks exploding over the top. That would be a nice shop.
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I could mock one up in photoshop, but I think that would be cheating slightly …
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nice pics mate, I have only taken fireworks twice, I’ll put some on my blog.
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Thanks Christian, I don’t think I’ll be rushing out every time there are fireworks around but it good to try something different every now and again.
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You know I dont’ know what is cheating anymore. There has been a serious change in the way people are processing photos lately, with obviously lots of photoshop. Heck even Christians photo of on the top of his blog looks like its had a large amount of dodging and burning applied, the black trees are a give away.
So I say go ahead, mock one up, everyone will go ohh ahh what a great shot and really if it looks good then thats all I’m really worried about. I don’t think there really is a line to cross anymore (just my rant)
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I know what you mean James, the biggest problem is peoples perception of what photography is and what is “acceptable” in their mind. It’s about time photography was considered more of an art form than a means of creating an exact facsimile of a scene. No one ever asks a painter if his painting has been photoshoped 😯
I like Alain Briots’ (http://www.beautiful-landscape.com) view on the whole question of whether his images are “modified” or not, when asked he just says “Yes” and leaves the other person to decide how to deal with his answer.
Alain has some very interesting essays on Photography which are well worth reading, here is a link to his “Just Say Yes” essay.
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Hey, thanks for the link Dave. It was a good read, I started laughing when I hit the part about him just saying yes.
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Alain’s writing has a certain “Frenchness” to it …
No that there’s anything wrong with that ( 🙂 ), he is a very good writer as well as a good photographer, some of his marketing essays are very interesting too 🙂
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