Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:23 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
Here's another one anyway!
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Austr...0103b91f31f0b7
Fairly certain a decent photographer could achieve this without photoshopping....but ya never know.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Austr...0103b91f31f0b7
Fairly certain a decent photographer could achieve this without photoshopping....but ya never know.
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:23 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
it is a fantastic photo! I'm not sure about others though, but I find it really hard to appreciate photography anymore. I used to really love nothing more than to study stunning images. But in this day and age you can so easily fake or reproduce something with the help of a few photoshop tools that suddenly it's difficult to judge what is real photographic skill and what is some nerdy twat who thinks SLR is a type of car has done on his home PC
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:24 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
Here's another one anyway!
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Austr...0103b91f31f0b7
Fairly certain a decent photographer could achieve this without photoshopping....but ya never know.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Austr...0103b91f31f0b7
Fairly certain a decent photographer could achieve this without photoshopping....but ya never know.
Sep 3rd 2009, 4:24 pm
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Sep 3rd 2009, 4:26 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
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Sep 3rd 2009, 4:32 pm
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Sep 3rd 2009, 5:45 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
I thought the dump and burn was a thing of the past and the F1-11's had been retired? (or was I dreaming?)
Anyway riverfire - USED to be excellent - lots of pyrotechnics, a bit of music simulcasted on radio and a crowd of people enjoying it....
Unfortunately it got popular - so more people meant fireworks needed to happen at more and more locations so cost more and more... this was dealt with by decreasing the music content of the display and increasing the adverising content of the simulcast.
What happens now is the decent spots are all crammed with crowds from late morning and eventually the fireworks come much like the style of local TV - 2 minutes flash and bang - the a 5minute ad break, then 2 minutes flash and bang, then 5 minute ad break....
Having said all that if you've never been to river fire - its probably worth seeing once - just remember to laugh (on the inside) at all the locals queuing up all day to listen to half an hour of adverts!!!!
Anyway riverfire - USED to be excellent - lots of pyrotechnics, a bit of music simulcasted on radio and a crowd of people enjoying it....
Unfortunately it got popular - so more people meant fireworks needed to happen at more and more locations so cost more and more... this was dealt with by decreasing the music content of the display and increasing the adverising content of the simulcast.
What happens now is the decent spots are all crammed with crowds from late morning and eventually the fireworks come much like the style of local TV - 2 minutes flash and bang - the a 5minute ad break, then 2 minutes flash and bang, then 5 minute ad break....
Having said all that if you've never been to river fire - its probably worth seeing once - just remember to laugh (on the inside) at all the locals queuing up all day to listen to half an hour of adverts!!!!
Sep 3rd 2009, 5:49 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
If you enjoy the F-111 afterburner show then watch it this year as they are being retired by the RAAF next year.
Sep 3rd 2009, 9:52 pm
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Re: Is the Brisbane River Fire Show good?
The last Riverfire I went to (2007 I think) was excellent. My husband's work bussed us to Riverlife area of Kangaroo Point cliffs - we had our own private section of jetty with bar staff refreshing our bubbly every five minutes. Then after the show we had a four course dinner in the Riverlife Marquee. After the crowds had all dispersed, they bussed us back. Very nice.
I usually watched it from the top of our street though - hundreds of people from the neighborhood (and others that come there) sit on the grass, have picnics and a bit of a neighborhood party - all good fun. Can't wait to get home and be able to see fireworks in the sky instead of a trying to watch through a thick layer of dust or pollution.
I usually watched it from the top of our street though - hundreds of people from the neighborhood (and others that come there) sit on the grass, have picnics and a bit of a neighborhood party - all good fun. Can't wait to get home and be able to see fireworks in the sky instead of a trying to watch through a thick layer of dust or pollution.
