To be honest, I went more to experiment with long exposures of the harbour, and the light-show on the Opera House and surrounds was just a bonus (or negative, in that there were millions of people everywhere). I managed to find a reasonably clear spot and set up amounts a forest of Manfrottos and Bogans (and Bogens).
Now one annoying thing with the D90 is that when you use Bulb mode, it requires you to keep the shutter depressed for the duration of the exposure. Definitely not going to happen.
Thankfully, if you use a wireless trigger, you press once to open the shutter, again to close it. I don't have a wireless trigger, but my faithful Nokia N900 does have an IR transmitter and - with the help of a handy little app - happily took over that job.
So, with ND8 in place, here are the results...
Water is getting silky smooth. I was going to try for a much longer exposure, but a group of children decided to set up camp next to me, and keeping my camera steady wasn't high on their list of priorities. Plus, the Opera House had lit up, so I decided to move on.
The next few are taken from the Cahill Freeway, you can take a lift up to the overpass, which was surprisingly deserted. With the Opera House however, exposures longer than about 30s resulted in a big mess of colour, rather than pleasing patterns. Back in the bag with the ND8 then.
I was glad that I had lugged along my 80-200. Meant that I could sit back away from the crowds and photograph in peace. My old Slik tripod wasn't too happy though, I had it at full extension to shoot over the concrete barriers lining the sides of the freeway.
Squiggly lines here are patterns of dots that ran up the sails. Made for a nice effect.
Went for a walk through the other sculptures, waay too many people crowding around for me to bother with the tripod, so I just walked on....
...and found myself near the Harbour Bridge with a nice view of the Opera House. The lights made for funky patterns on the longer exposures.
Eventually I made my way back down to the harbour, and found an even better vantage point. Unfortunately the patterns were repeating themselves, and I got bored (and cold) and decided to call it a night.
super like! Keep it up :D
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