After endless trips to Southbank to capture the gas brigades in front of Crown Casino firing, I achieved my best photo yet on Saturday night. I turned up, with only a couple of minutes to spare, for the 8pm show. Unfortunately at 8pm the sky was a little too bright, resulting in a flat and uninspiring background of the flames.
While I waited for the 9pm show, I took a walk along Southbank and captured the photographs below. For the night shots a slow shutter speed of between 1 and 8 seconds, with a sturdy tripod of course, allowed the night's blue sky to shine through. The second photograph is my favourite, a slightly unusual view with the Sandridge bridge to the left and the lamps along the Yarra River to the right.
After enjoying my walk along Southbank, I was a little distracted and time slipped away from me. At five to nine (the gas brigades were due to fire again at nine) I was still on the other side of Queensbridge. A mad dash down Southbank to Kings Way ensued, which no doubt resulted in some confused glares from the tourists along Southbank. I still hadn't arrived at the bridge when the gas started to release from the brigades (the gas releases for about ten seconds before the brigades start firing) and then the brigades started firing. I changed my camera settings on the run, and hoped for the best when I arrived at the bridge. There was not time to set up the tripod, so I had to hope for the best. Luckily the shutter speed was fast enough to minimise the impact of camera shake. The resulting photograph is below, and oddly enough without a tripod, captured on the run, was my best photograph of the gas brigades yet.
(18mm, ISO 1250, f/8, 1/20 sec.)
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