Chofu Fireworks
July 25th, 2004
Every year they have a fireworks display on the Tama River at Chofu; I can see it OK from my building, but as you can see in the first shot, zoom photography is needed from this far away, and the quality suffers. So I made it down to the river for the last part of the show, and saw some very nice hanabi, as they’re called in Japan. Here are some of the shots that I took of the show.
From the top of my apartment building
Kind of a palm-tree effect here; people were watching from all over, including the bridge at bottom.
Here you can see people set out on the riverbed. The best seats, closer to the show, are not free–in fact, the best seats, at tables, go for about $50 a pop.
And there’s always a big ending, shown here as an AVI file (5.5 MB).
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Great photos, as always!
Awesome photos! It would be neat if we could also see larger versions tho. Were they also taken with your PowerShot S30?
Thanks! And yes, they were taken with the PowerShot S30. Most were time exposures, from one to five seconds, manual focus set on infinity. They were taken on a tripod, but because the tripod would shake when I pressed the shutter button, I set the camera to a 2-second delay–which meant I had to predict when the fireworks would go off, not as easy a task as it might sound, especially since the cycle for taking a shot and waiting for the camera to be ready for the next was just sliiiightly longer than the cycle for each new large firework to go off.
I’d love to comply and post all the larger photos, but that would entail a bit of work, and since the post is already a few weeks old, you’d probably be the whole audience–and I have quite a few other things on my plate at the moment. But when I can…