How to Photograph Vivid (Without Losing Your Mind)

(Location: Sydney, Australia)

I had a work gig in Sydney, so I was up there almost every week for a month. This synchronised nicely with Vivid, the annual light/music/etc. festival.

What we learned

• Crowds are less at the beginning of the festival
• Crowds are less later at night
• Crowds are less on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
• It’s REALLY crowded 🙂

That said, we found some great, relatively crowd free locations:

• The Cahill Expressway above Circular Quay 

  

   

• The southmost pylon on the Harbour Bridge (don’t bother shooting from the bridge, it shakes)
  
  
• The passenger ferry terminal (take the elevator to the top floor, then walk north and take the stairs to the top of the observation deck)
  
• McMahons Point (take the ferry from Circular Quay)