{"id":2839,"date":"2010-01-01T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:44:32","slug":"new-year-with-a-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2839","title":{"rendered":"New Year With A New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NYE<\/a> The view from my balcony last night as my neighbours brought in the New Year with a bang!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every year on New Years Eve I am on my balcony in hopes of getting some good firework photos.\u00a0 Back in 2007<\/a> I was bummed because it was raining on NYE so not as many people were out.\u00a0 Also it made for very foggy weather.\u00a0 The fact that I was trying to get photos with my point and shoot didn\u2019t help either.\u00a0 Without a tripod I didn\u2019t have a chance of getting anything decent.<\/p>\n

Then in 2008<\/a> it was really foggy so I thought I\u2019d be clever and take video instead, knowing from my 2007 experience that I didn\u2019t have a hope in hell of getting any good photos.\u00a0 What was not so clever though?\u00a0 Deleting the files off my camera before <\/em>realizing that for some reason, the videos weren\u2019t uploaded along with the few photos I did take.\u00a0\u00a0 I was thankful for the noise of the fireworks, it drowned out my long string of screamed profanities.<\/p>\n

\"NYE<\/a>
\nAnother photo of the same view. I didn\u2019t catch the big one on the left fully, but I still like it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year I had two things going in my favor.\u00a0 Firstly, my new camera<\/a>, a Sony A300 that I bought back in March.\u00a0 It\u2019s my first digital SLR camera and it\u2019s a very steep learning curve.\u00a0 I still consider myself a total beginner, but a beginner who is having bucket loads of fun with it.<\/p>\n

\"NYE<\/a> \"NYE<\/a> \"NYE<\/a><\/p>\n

Another thing that made all the difference was the Hama Star 63 Tripod<\/a> my husband bought me for Christmas!\u00a0 When you start doing anything in regards to photography, everyone will tell you to get a tripod, and now I know why.\u00a0 I am generally a pretty unsteady and shaky person, so trying to get photos in any kind of low light situation is a nightmare. With the tripod it\u2019s so much easier.\u00a0 I\u2019ll definitely be dragging it with me most places in the future.<\/p>\n

There weren\u2019t as many fireworks this year at midnight as there have been other years.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s the financial crisis, maybe it has something to do with them cracking down on the sale of illegal fireworks, I\u2019m not sure.\u00a0 I do wish people would put more money into the beautiful, photo worthy fireworks to be set off at night than they do in the annoying, loud and unnecessary bangers and firecrackers they set off all day.<\/p>\n

You can see all my firework photos, past and present, in my Fireworks Set on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year Everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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