Fire Twirlers in the Park…
by Rodney Campbell on May.04, 2013, under Life, Photography
From the second Google Plus Centennial Park PicANiK. After the sun went down we had a trio of awesome fire twirlers join us for some fiery fun and light painting.
The fire was really really bright which made crafting exposures difficult – basically you had to expose for the bright flame which left the bulk of the scene in darkness because we don’t have any time to expose for ambient.
Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
Still with some short exposures of less than a second at f/8 we get interesting results
Hula
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 22 mm, 1/2 sec at f/8, ISO 400
Circle of Fire
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 22 mm, 1/2 sec at f/8, ISO 400
With quite a lot of movement (but the dancer herself) around the frame we can lengthen the exposure a little to try and drag in some ambient light
Emblem
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 6.50 sec at f/11, ISO 1000
and finally after a few minutes we worked out that the flame gets quite a bit dimmer before it goes out and we have a window of about 30 to 60 seconds where we can do some much longer exposures and incorporate some light painting into the mix…
Light Orgasm
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 170 sec at f/11, ISO 1000
and our fantastic fire twirler come model extraordinaire
Fire Diva
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 228.00 sec at f/9, ISO 100
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