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Fire twirling - awesome and disappointing .....
So my lovely 23 year old neighbour offered to do some fire twirling for me, what a great photo opportunity! I thought the local oval would be great, its pretty isolated ie its not overlooked except by the club house. Doing the twirling in the middle of the oval (holds two soccer fields so its big!) would be safe because its surrounded by bush.
Tan did the first twirl to see how the new kevlar burnt while I set up the camera... each session lasts about 3 mins depending on the fuel. So second spin .............. all of a sudden there's jeering and shouting from the verandah of the club house where about 15 fellas are drinking after their game. "What are you doing! Put the bl@@dy things out and on and on it went" Now you can't extinguish these things once they're lit (you could in a bucket of water) so best just to let them burn out after a couple of minutes, I managed to click a few frames with the settings I had guessed.
The bright sparks in the club house thought they'd really spoil the fun by turning the floodlights on on the oval, absolutely ensuring there were no more pics to be had. OMG, I was disgusted. They were all very brave with their beers, 100m away 4 meters up in "their" club house, shouting at a middle aged woman (and that's generous) and young lady......
Tan walked all the way over to them to explain what we were doing meanwhile the taunts continued "circus freak!" She told them very politely that we would stop the fire twirling but would be continuing with some light painting......... they turned the lights off and went back inside. She handled herself very well - I would've said something I may have regretted I'm sure, but seriously - how old are you?! Would it have killed them to walk over to talk to us? "Can I ask what you're doing? Will it damage the grass? We have some concerns ..... " (I must admit I didn't want to walk into the club house before we started to let them know what we were doing, I thought that'd be asking for trouble)
Anyhoo here are two shots of the night:
We had planned to "map" her various routines but will have to that some other time. This will give you an idea of how it looks. You can get quite close because nothing really flys off.
f 2.8 (would've changed this to f5.6/f8 and lengthened the shutter speed if I'd had the opportunity)
ISO 100
5 secs
manual
Light painting:
Dome again, with sparkler aura detail, fairies = led pointed at the camera with a quick on an off, green and purple are small light wands purchased from the local newsagent.
Tan did the first twirl to see how the new kevlar burnt while I set up the camera... each session lasts about 3 mins depending on the fuel. So second spin .............. all of a sudden there's jeering and shouting from the verandah of the club house where about 15 fellas are drinking after their game. "What are you doing! Put the bl@@dy things out and on and on it went" Now you can't extinguish these things once they're lit (you could in a bucket of water) so best just to let them burn out after a couple of minutes, I managed to click a few frames with the settings I had guessed.
The bright sparks in the club house thought they'd really spoil the fun by turning the floodlights on on the oval, absolutely ensuring there were no more pics to be had. OMG, I was disgusted. They were all very brave with their beers, 100m away 4 meters up in "their" club house, shouting at a middle aged woman (and that's generous) and young lady......
Tan walked all the way over to them to explain what we were doing meanwhile the taunts continued "circus freak!" She told them very politely that we would stop the fire twirling but would be continuing with some light painting......... they turned the lights off and went back inside. She handled herself very well - I would've said something I may have regretted I'm sure, but seriously - how old are you?! Would it have killed them to walk over to talk to us? "Can I ask what you're doing? Will it damage the grass? We have some concerns ..... " (I must admit I didn't want to walk into the club house before we started to let them know what we were doing, I thought that'd be asking for trouble)
Anyhoo here are two shots of the night:
We had planned to "map" her various routines but will have to that some other time. This will give you an idea of how it looks. You can get quite close because nothing really flys off.
f 2.8 (would've changed this to f5.6/f8 and lengthened the shutter speed if I'd had the opportunity)
ISO 100
5 secs
manual
Light painting:
Dome again, with sparkler aura detail, fairies = led pointed at the camera with a quick on an off, green and purple are small light wands purchased from the local newsagent.
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