Fiery performance at Waterfire
Kenundrum
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Hi all,
for those not from new england, here in Providence, we rerouted an entire river to make the city look nicer. Then we decided to take it a step further and put caldrons on pontoons and set them on fire all the way down and created WaterFire... for more info goto www.waterfire.org
anyway... tonight- i stopped by and in my short time i saw the most amazing display i'd seen in a while... this guy paddled his canoe solo to one of the bridge supports and began to whirl large balls of fire around on ropes... gave me a great opportunity to see just how manual i could get my point and shoot sd400 to become... some of the results were pretty nice. the entire gallery is http://kenundrum.smugmug.com/gallery/764251/3 the best shots start on page 3. here's some of the highlights:
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i pretty much had the camera set to full manual- iso 100, no flash, and i played with the exposure from normal to 1 (on a PnS it's just in 1/3 increments, not specific exposure lengths) i ended up with .5s to 1s shots, the first few were longer, the last ones are the shorter exposures... any suggestions as to how to maximize the night-time ability? or what the optimal settings/conditions would be for this kind of stuff? i can probably figure out how to get the camera to do it... the only thing it wont do is manual focus. thanks!
for those not from new england, here in Providence, we rerouted an entire river to make the city look nicer. Then we decided to take it a step further and put caldrons on pontoons and set them on fire all the way down and created WaterFire... for more info goto www.waterfire.org
anyway... tonight- i stopped by and in my short time i saw the most amazing display i'd seen in a while... this guy paddled his canoe solo to one of the bridge supports and began to whirl large balls of fire around on ropes... gave me a great opportunity to see just how manual i could get my point and shoot sd400 to become... some of the results were pretty nice. the entire gallery is http://kenundrum.smugmug.com/gallery/764251/3 the best shots start on page 3. here's some of the highlights:
exif
i pretty much had the camera set to full manual- iso 100, no flash, and i played with the exposure from normal to 1 (on a PnS it's just in 1/3 increments, not specific exposure lengths) i ended up with .5s to 1s shots, the first few were longer, the last ones are the shorter exposures... any suggestions as to how to maximize the night-time ability? or what the optimal settings/conditions would be for this kind of stuff? i can probably figure out how to get the camera to do it... the only thing it wont do is manual focus. thanks!
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Nick
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yea, that was at the start of one of his sets where the flails were just dripping wet with kerosene and had flames rivaling the ones in the water. in one of the pictures i got he actually created a trail of flame on the water and on the support he's on by letting them drag a little. thanks- that second one is my favorite too