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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Advice Needed on Photographing Fire
- Message-ID: <zlsiida.841@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:11:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.110804.2875@spider.co.uk> <1993Jan24.042029.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- >In article <1993Jan22.110804.2875@spider.co.uk>, mikec@spider.co.uk (Mike Coren) writes:
- >>
- >> Can anybody offer any pearls of wisdom in regards to photographing fire?
- >> I'll be in York for the Jorvik Viking Festival next month, and the final
- >> event is the burning of a Viking longboat on the river. It will probably
- >> be late twilight or night.
- >>
- I took some shots of the self-same festival a few years back when I'd only
- just got my SLR. Basically I found that if the burning longship filled most
- of the frame, the fire gets metered and everything else is a bit dark, and
- if there's too much non-fire in the frame the scene gets metered the opther
- way and the flames are too bright to hold definition and look like flames.
- I was a beginner then so I just hoped the camera meter would give me
- something usable, and when the flames covered about 1/4 of the frame it
- balanced about right.
- During the preceding day you should be able to get some fun shots, like
- Viking infantry checking out 20th century clothes shop windows etc. For the
- staged battles you want to get in close or get a long lens, not easy with
- all the crowds, and the plastic crowdcontrol tapes look bloody awful if you
- get them in the frame.
- Don't forget the still-smouldering hulk of the longboat next morning, plus
- probably a few well hungover Vikings.
-
-
- All creatures will make merry (on pain of death)
- Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033
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