I first went in 2007 - luckily one of the girls I work with has a lifetime pass, which means she can get you in for free! Handy when its like about $22 just to walk through the door.... so anyhoo, I went along to take some photos, little did I know I would take the photo that I guess confirmed to me that I might just have some talent in this photography gig:
The Shot!
I absolutely still love this photo! It is seriously one of the best photos I have ever taken. I went along to Ekka specifically to take this photo, I had seen a similar one on a another photographers website and that was all the inspiration I needed really. I edited the original photo a little - basically just enhancing the colours etc. Even now tho I don't think I would edit it any differently. This is the photo I wanted to take and I was so excited when I came out how I pictured it - because that NEVER happens!!! As a photographer (or as I call myself, a person who takes photos), sometimes you can plan for the shot you want and can spend hours somewhere but not get anything remotely close to perfection - this to me is so close to the point of perfection.
I know there are professional people out there who will say - there is too much noise or its not edited the best... but I don't really care to be honest. All along I have never professed that I take photos for anyone else, I take photos for me and I edit them for me - if other people like them then that is just a bonus.
Here is another one from that year. This one is handheld (the first photo was on a tripod) & you can tell as its a bit blurry in places, but I still like it - I was rather impressed with myself when I was looking through these photos.... those photos were taken with a Fuji Film 5600 digital camera.And now on to 2010 - I didn't go in this year, instead I went to the Royal Brisbane Hospital carpark, which is located across from what they call Sideshow Alley - bascially where most of the rides are located. I headed there about 7:30pm because the fireworks were meant to start at 8:10pm.. I kind of knew I wouldn't be the only person up there - there was a group of ladies up there all set up with their tripods & cameras - they even had a catering lady!! It was actually quite good because the fireworks were 50 minutes late (!!!!) so it was nice to have people to chat to.... anyhoo, because I was only in one vantage point I didn't really get to see too many different things, so didn't have as much variety - but still, I am quite happy with what came out - these photos were taken with a Nikon D60 DSLR camera.
This is one of my favourites - the actual photo is of the whole ferris wheel & fireworks, but I just cropped it down so it took kind of a snapshot of part of the whole photo.. I really like how this focus' on so much but so little at the same time.
This is of the view I had and was taken before the fireworks started.
This one has to be my favourite - its not about the photo because it was an ok photo, its more about the edited version. I think that as the years have passed I have become more daring in my editing style and I do think that at the moment for me, I have more fun in the editing of photos than the actual taking of photos. Thats not to say I don't enjoy taking photos, but I have kind of lost my way I guess and I am not as confident as I once was - which is silly because I think I am more successful now than I ever was.
