Fire Twirlers in the Park...

[Remorhaz]

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 - still with some short exposures of less than a second at f/8 we get interesting results

Hula


Circle of Fire


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


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


and our fantastic fire twirler come model extraordinaire

Fire Diva

[Nikon boy]

I really like No 3 but they are all nice

I would like to know more technical info on how you did these please

Cheers

[Remorhaz]

Thanks Norman

For the first couple it's just bulb mode using a remote trigger and I open the shutter when I'm ready and release when I think I've got enough motion included. I knew I could expose for ambient because the fire was way too bright and would overexpose so I just went for the dealing with the fire itself.

With the light painted ones at the end the process is a bit more complicated - I'll explain the whole process in much more detail when I post up the few light painting ones from the end of this evening soon