Great Balls Of Fire

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited November 5, 2006 in Holy Macro
I spent almost the whole day today on the Civil War reenactment field.
Got a lot of shots, a lot of nice ones, but nothing came close this this one:

Great Balls Of Fire:

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More later (hopefully:-)
"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    I spent almost the whole day today on the Civil War reenactment field.
    Got a lot of shots, a lot of nice ones, but nothing came close this this one:

    Great Balls Of Fire:
    More later (hopefully:-)

    Ohhhh nice one Nik....... check out the heat in that flame.
    You got the whole fire ball in that shot too clap.gifclap.gif
    Thanks for sharing Nik......... Skippy (Australia)
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,237 moderator
    edited November 4, 2006
    Nik, I don't know just how to tell you this, but... exposure-wise, it appears that the subject in the middle of the "shot" has been "blown." mwink.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Cool pic!
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  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    NICE!
    Nik you do a great job at capturing unique events. Were they shooting cannon balls out of this or just a gun powder blast?

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Skippy,
    Skippy wrote:
    Ohhhh nice one Nik....... check out the heat in that flame.
    You got the whole fire ball in that shot too clap.gifclap.gif
    Thanks for sharing Nik......... Skippy (Australia)

    Thanks, mate! thumb.gif
    Yeah, that heat is something, isn't it? rolleyes1.gif
    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    David,
    David_S85 wrote:
    Nik, I don't know just how to tell you this, but... exposure-wise, it appears that the subject in the middle of the "shot" has been "blown." mwink.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Cool pic!

    Where, where, how? headscratch.gif
    Oh, darn! I didn't notice... I can see now... how silly of me to post it rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks, man! thumb.gif

    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Aaron,
    anwmn1 wrote:
    NICE!
    Nik you do a great job at capturing unique events. Were they shooting cannon balls out of this or just a gun powder blast?

    Aaron

    Thank you, appreciate the compliment! With the blasts it's a pure luck though... You just shot, and shoot, and then shoot again.

    They were shooting just powder. It's to crowded everywhere, they cannot risk shooting the balls. They were taking about some aluminum foils objects though, but that may be when they imitating the "hit". I don't have a picture of that one from this one, but here's a shot from last year:

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    Cheers! 1drink.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Great capture loved it clap.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Awais,
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Great capture loved it clap.gif
    Thank you, my friend! thumb.gif
    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • BPCooperBPCooper Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Wow, that first one is great. Great timing!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Ben,
    BPCooper wrote:
    Wow, that first one is great. Great timing!
    Thanks! Sometimes luck obliges...rolleyes1.gif
    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,703 moderator
    edited November 5, 2006
    Not only can you see flames from the barrel, but from the primer hole, at the other end from the muzzle, shooting vertical.

    Great shot Nick.

    How many frames did you shoot to capture this? I have shot cannnon fire several times never done this well.thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2006
    Jim,
    pathfinder wrote:
    Not only can you see flames from the barrel, but from the primer hole, at the other end from the muzzle, shooting vertical.

    Great shot Nick.

    How many frames did you shoot to capture this? I have shot cannnon fire several times never done this well.thumb.gif

    Thanks!

    I think there was 3 or 4 frames in this attempt (not that there were no other attempts, which were many:-). I was lucky that they decided to make "a wave of fire" and started to shoot four or five guns one-by-one. This gave me half-a second or so I needed to recompose and press the shutter. I was at 3 fps. This cannon was the last one. Tom Yi got similar shot, but a tiny fraction of a second earlier: in his shot there are stilll some remnants from the previous gun's blast, which was totally gone by the time my camera captured this one...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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