Fire - first attempt

keith204 · Dec 16, 2008

This is for a school project (not photography related)

Ls3D · Dec 17, 2008

A great success! And no burns :thumbup:

I better just play with water...

-S

vip3r1850 · Dec 19, 2008

WoW that is great, my first fire attempt was at a dirty old fire place after a couple kamikazes, didn't come out so great . . . Just couldn't get the settings right

How did you get that beautiful black solid background ?

keith204 · Dec 20, 2008

vip3r1850 said:
How did you get that beautiful black solid background ?

Started a fire in my studio....

dmassphoto · Dec 21, 2008

Keith, great shots! I would suggest that, if you're going to be burning paper, use a simple theme to get the point across, or just burn a blank piece of paper.

One of my first projects I ever did was a fire concept I shot back in the film days in my kitchen. I shot a series of 3 pieces of paper being burned. One was with the vent on, which was the only keeper. The other piece was wadded up and wasn't really dramatic enough. And the last piece was with the vent off, and I ended up burning my hand, dropping the piece of paper onto the the cloth that had served as my background, and freaking myself out quite a bit! But with that work, I was able to get a nice copyrighted photo that I'm earning money off of. Keep working at it. You've got the equipment, just work on the concept!

keith204 · Dec 22, 2008

dmassphoto said:
Keith, great shots! I would suggest that, if you're going to be burning paper, use a simple theme to get the point across, or just burn a blank piece of paper.

One of my first projects I ever did was a fire concept I shot back in the film days in my kitchen. I shot a series of 3 pieces of paper being burned. One was with the vent on, which was the only keeper. The other piece was wadded up and wasn't really dramatic enough. And the last piece was with the vent off, and I ended up burning my hand, dropping the piece of paper onto the the cloth that had served as my background, and freaking myself out quite a bit! But with that work, I was able to get a nice copyrighted photo that I'm earning money off of. Keep working at it. You've got the equipment, just work on the concept!

Good points

for this shoot, I used a receipt because it was necessary to support the school project this was for.