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Forum: Photographic Technique
03-03-2013, 02:30 PM
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If you're here next Friday or Saturday night be sure to check out the Enlighten event around the parliamentary triangle. The National Library, National Gallery, Questacon, Old Parliament House and the Portrait Gallery are being lit up with projected images, very cool stuff to see.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-13-2013, 04:33 PM
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Not sure when you are coming to Canberra but Saturday, 16 March there will be a big fireworks display in Canberra too.
Car will be the simplest/fastest way to get to spots on the other side of the lake, at that time of the day you won't have any problems with traffic or parking (for Regatta Point I'd be looking to park in the small carpark on the eastern side of Commonwealth Avenue near the Captain Cook fountain).
Depending on your fitness level it takes 30-45 mins to walk to the other side of the lake.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-12-2013, 03:39 PM
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Specifically at the side of lake near Anzac Parade (that is where I took the snap shots below) but as someone has suggested finding an elevated position you might also want to check out Regatta Point near the restaurant/business centre, it's right on the lake and relatively elevated. If you wanted to go for a really panoramic view of the whole city and the balloons you could go up Mount Ainslie. You could also check out Aspen Island (where the Carillion is) it might yield some interesting views of the balloons above the lake.
Another place I just thought is the small bridge over the path from the lake up to Reconciliation Place (in the middle of the first photo I posted you can see a gap in the walls between the Gallery of Australian Design and the Water's Edge restaurant - there's a bridge over that path).
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-11-2013, 06:55 PM
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I haven't been home or bothered to get out of bed for the last few years so some things may have changed since the last time I went along in 2006.
The balloons normally inflate on the lawns across from Old Parliament House, there will probably be a lot of people around for that time in Canberra but you'll be pleasantly surprised how much elbow room you have compared to if the event was somewhere else. Personally, I certainly wouldn't be getting there at 4am unless you want to be standing around in the dark by yourself, try 5am the first day and get up earlier or sleep in the next day accordingly.
Once the balloons get into the air across the lake near the end of Anzac Parade is a nice spot, if there is little to no wind you can get some nice reflections in the lake and include some of Canberra's landmarks for context (there's a handy carpark you can access coming west along Parkes Way).
Autumn is the best time of year weatherwise in Canberra so expect blue skies (polariser will be handy) but the mornings will probably be a bit fresh if you are coming from Sydney.
These are a few shots I took with a Olympus P & S (wife wouldn't let me spend $2000 for a Pentax dSLR) back in 2006. Exif says they were taken just after 8am but I expect I forget to adjust the time back at the end of daylight saving so probably just after 7am
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