The Fireworks at 1Borneo…
1borneo, fireworks, life, photography October 18th, 2008
I almost cancelled my plan to join the others for the fireworks events at 1Borneo last night. It all because me and my boss went to meet the Director at 5pm. We only came out around 6.15pm! Furthermore, after that I have to send someone to Hungab and another at Kolopis!
I reach home around 7pm and immediately change my office cloths, grab my sling bag and back on the road again… destination 1Borneo, that is about 20km away! And no dinner! In my bag are my big gun, a video cam and the T200. Everything is in tip top condition… fully charged and full of storage. The video cam even has 8GB of memory stick under its hood 😀
Less then 5km from Alam Mesra… our new meeting place which is opposite to 1Borneo… CRAPP!!! Traffic Jam!!!… Clock shows 7.40pm
Lucky the jam was not that long… I manage to meet them at the kedai kopi around 8pm. Ordered my drink and food… fried rice only 😛 Eat quickly then 2 of my friends hop into my car and we went further away so that we can get better view… about 1km – 1.5km away from 1Borneo. We set our gear on the road island… there was not much people there. Only the 3 of us using tripod 😀 Wonder where the other photographers…
The show did not start at 8.30pm… we got ‘insider info’ that it’s going to be delayed to 9pm and it’s going to be shoot from the top of the hotels at 1Borneo… Novotel or Mercure. Exactly at 9.02pm the show started… and I was still posing for photo 😛
The weather was so good… so clear… our position is great… using my 17-85mm lens at its widest setting, I can capture everything… BUT the only unfortunate was ‘what I requested did not come!’… NO WIND!!! It turns out like a nuclear bomb being released at 1Borneo. The show only lasted for 5 minutes… and can’t do much becoz of the smoke! And… please comment how to take fireworks… this is my first time using M on DSLR, and I did learned few things last night. Normally I just use P. I set my shutter speed to 2.5 seconds… I should have set it to 4 or 5 seconds 🙁
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October 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Splendid!
[20Oct2008]
thnx Bernard 😀
October 19th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I also use Canon but of the lowest range. Canon EOS400D
[20Oct2008]
Cool… camera alone is not enough but creativity… 😀
Cool… camera alone is not enough but creativity… so don’t worry about it, your creativity count more… your shots can tell it, they are great 😀
October 19th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I agree..there should be wind..to clear away the smoke. Then again for 5 minutes..why bother..hehe. ya 4-5sec or even longer shutter speed would be nice…you can fill your shot with more fireworks. Why didn’t take from the UMS mosque..I think that would be good angle.
[20Oct2008]
UMS was our initial plan… plan changed, lucky… but I think UMS will be as good as looking up from underneath of 1Borneo… smoke!
October 21st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
kbguy…I have an EOS400D too. It’s a great camera in the right hands…though currently I’m dreaming of the 5D MarkII..hehe
[21Oct2008]
disney & kbguy…
true… to both of you, it doesn’t matter if it older model coz I’ve seen both of your photos, and they are great shots… I actually checking on your’ll photo blog sometimes to get some ideas and learn… 😀
I have the 40D and frankly, sometimes I’m confused how to use it… it is easier to use the point and shoot… 🙁
October 29th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I took videos right in front of 1Borneo and under the whole explosions while inside my car in the middle of the road [I just remembered that I havent uploaded them to youtube yet].
The explosions were so loud that my normally fearless 5-yr old son begged me to go home. Of course you can guess what happened to my car – black stuff rained on it.
[29Oct2008]
😆 I have video of it too… but have not upload it to youtube too… 😛