Remember remember the 5th of November..
Last night was bonfire night and I got dragged off to watch the Renfrewshire Annual Fireworks Display by my pals Linda & Tricia so I took my trusty D80 and tripod to capture the event in glorious technicolour digital bits.
The event included a roadshow by a local Radio station which featured some pretty awful sound system, get some bass in there ffs. There were a few rides etc for the kids and of course the main attraction was the fireworks display.
We arrived at the location nice and early to bag a good vantage point, stood there for over an hour camera and tripod ready (anger level 3/10), then the ‘organisers’ said the area had to be cleared for safety reasons, moved us on and erected barriers (anger level 6/10)
The area we were moved into was already packed with people and so the only place I could get the tripod set up now included the rather fetching lamp post in the shot (Anger level 8/10)
At about T-3 minutes I notice that in the area I had original picked there were now about half a doz adults and a gaggle of kids which the ‘organisers’ were not bothered about moving (anger level 9/10)
Then just as the display is about to start the ‘organisers’ decide to move the newly erected barriers and allow the crowd into the area I had originally been stood in (anger level – head exploded like one of the fireworks)
Anyway, if you program your eyes to ignore the lamp post I think the shots came out quite well, my initial guess at exposure was 1/4 sec at F3.5 at ISO 100. This turned out to be about right – I settled on 1/5th after reviewing the first few shots.
I went for ISO 100 to minimise noise, and as it turned out I don’t think there was any need to go for higher ISO.
Anyway here is the complete Flickr set of photos from the evening, I managed to get the photo count down from 470 to 17 to ease your viewing pleasure 
Tags: Bonfire night, Fireworks, Paisley, Renfrewshire
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