Fireworks display lit up the night sky during the 6th annual PotashCorp Fireworks Festival in Saskatoon last Friday and Saturday. The fireworks were launched from the Broadway Bridge in downtown Saskatoon. Royal Pyrotechnie lit up the skies on Friday, and ProFX Inc. were in charge on Saturday. ProFX Inc. has delivered the fireworks show for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games as well as four Grey Cups.
I was lucky enough to get access to one of the tall buildings right next to the Delta Bessborough hotel and had a great view of the show. Here are a few images from the Friday performance. I selected the vertical composition, showing a bit of downtown traffic and the hotel itself. My camera was set to a manual exposure and ISO 100 to minimize the amount of digital noise in shadow areas. Thanks to the long exposure times (I experimented with shutter speeds from 3 seconds to 15 seconds) lights on passing cars were recorded as streaks of light. I like how the light trails add to the overall impression of the night-time photography.
