Project 365 - Day 182 - Happy Birthday Canada

July 1st, 2013.  Canada's 146th birthday and she doesn't look a day over 125.  How do you do it Canada?  :-)

We went down to Bronte Harbour tonight to catch the fireworks.  There was a big group of us, but I split off to go to one of my usual perches to capture the 'works unimpeded.  It was really tough today as there was a western wind off the lake that was taking the fireworks in that direction.  My first couple of shots were blurred because of this, and I was also having trouble with little feet kicking my tripod around on me.

I ended up with a few good shots - not as many as I would have liked but still good shots.  This one was one of the long exposure shots.

2sec shutter, f/13 and ISO400.  My 24-70mm lens at 32mm.  I cropped out some of the heads right in front of me, but you can see the people on the breakwall under the burst.

No colour correction as this was how it was shot and how it looked.

Project 365 - Day 169 - Sailboat

Tonight I went out with the express purpose of getting some star trails.  Turns out it was too bright still, even at 10pm, to get these.  So I had to improvise.

Today's shot is of a sailboat at night.  I set up and took this as a straight on night shot.  My exposure was 6 seconds, and the boat is floating, so it was really blurry.  So I got out my speedlight and fired it off just before the shutter closed, emulating a rear curtain flash.

The end result is it froze the boat and still let the ambient night light in.

24-70mm lens at 24mm.  f/6.3 at 6 sec.  ISO is 800.  Manually fired handheld flash, but the camera is on a tripod.

Project 365 - Day 153 - Bronte Harbour at night

I have been to Bronte Harbour a number of times, and I keep looking for something different to shoot.  Yes, there are a bunch of boats down there that can be shot in the water with reflections, and I could probably fill up a whole project 365 of just those, but I wanted something different.  When  I was down there earlier this winter, I saw the curvature of the inner harbour and how the lights ran along that curve up to the lighthouse.  So tonight I decided to shoot that.

I was late for the sunset tonight, but it didn't really matter as I was shooting the lake which is in the other direction.  So I set up my shot and took 3 test shots to choose the best exposure.  At that point, a couple approached me and advised that they were "about to block my view" and then continued down the walkway.  They are now part of post 153.

Shot with my 24-70mm lens (yes Omar, I know) at f/7.1 and .5s shutter.  Lens was at 56mm.  I used my tripod for this shot.