Les grands feux du Casino du Lac‑Leamy : August 9, Portugal

I decided to shoot the Portugal's entry in Les grands feux du Casino du Lac‑Leamy. I had good success on Canada Day on Victoria Island in the Ottawa River (West of Parliament Hill) had an excellent field of view.  This is around 800 metres from the raft where they were being launched from.

Pentax *istD, SMC Pentax-DA 14mm f:2.8. ISO 200, 12 seconds @ f:8. Was just a bit wide for there.

Twilight view looking east; showing the Alexandria Bridge in the center, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada light in red, Notre-Dame Basilica twin steeples, and to the right of the bright lights Parliament Hill. Pretty much the same view, as on Canada Day.

I decided the SMC Pentax-M 35mm f:2.8 was the best choice from my experience the last time. so I switched to the only other lens I was carrying was  my SMC Pentax FA 50mm f:1.4.

 

With time exposures of fireworks you have to wing it, and hope the entire burst is in the frame. This one was one of the bigger bursts and I was already at the short end of my lens. 



After the show, the Ottawa sky was laden with the sulphurous cloud of gunpowder smoke.

 

Darrell Larose
Ottawa, Canada
10 August 2014