Playing with fire

NickBull

Thought I'd have a play around with some matches (even though my mum taught me never to play with matches...)

Comments?

Aguadulce

Interesting idea, I like the second one best.

Dylanwyer

I quite like these, I was thinking about trying the same idea tomorrow. Mind if I ask what your camera settings were? and what you shot the pictures towards?

I don't usually shoot objects like this, especially inside, I'm more into outdoor, but atm im stuck inside great for my photography though!

Thanks

Lord Vetinari

Well taken !- esp like #2
Brian v.

NickBull

Setup
The setup was pretty simple.

The camera was on a tripod pre-focused to the match head. I had a flash gun to the right of the match with barn doors around it to narrow the band of light. The background was about two or three feet behind the match and was a dark brown cupboard door. Because of the barn doors on the flash, the flash didn't leak backwards to light the background (or at least not too much).

The ISO was set to 100 and the shutter was 1/250. The aperture was probably around 5.6 (I can't remember exactly and I'm not near the computer to check at the moment).

Then it was a case of setting the high-speed drive mode and hold a lit match next to the one in the setup. Then fast reactions to pull it away when it catches and hold the shutter button down at the same time.

Oh, and the flash was set to around 1/16 power in manual mode.

GOLDENORFE

very well shot

like last 2 frames best
phil

paddler4

Very nice! This is one of the reasons I like macro--you can find all sorts of interesting and attractive stuff that you would otherwise miss lurking in everyday scenes. I guess I have to get some barn doors...

Nikonic1

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Well taken !- esp like #2
Brian v.

agree

clicketf3

Very nice idea, be cautious though, Mom always told me, Boys that play with matches wet the bed!

jsqueri

These are great! I love the combintation of the smoke and flame.

I'll deffinately be trying this soon.

Congrats.

NickBull

paddler4 wrote:

Very nice! This is one of the reasons I like macro--you can find all sorts of interesting and attractive stuff that you would otherwise miss lurking in everyday scenes. I guess I have to get some barn doors...

The barn doors were improvised and were just a couple of square drink mats that we had on the table (the things you put glasses on to stop the wife from moaning the table is marked ;-) )

Just a couple of bits of cardboard would work just as well. Just make sure they extend past the edge of the flash gun about two inches.

paddler4

NickBull wrote:

The barn doors were improvised and were just a couple of square drink mats that we had on the table (the things you put glasses on to stop the wife from moaning the table is marked ;-) )

Just a couple of bits of cardboard would work just as well. Just make sure they extend past the edge of the flash gun about two inches.

Thanks. That should be easy enough.