Color of fire

[DrM007]

Been toyin' with off camera flash a bit. Here's what came out of it.
PP: crop, sharpen and retouched a small detail. Nothing with the colours though... C&C welcome.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/3148388772_98d3f1b40f_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/milang/3148388772/)

I like it more with black BG: link (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3148388772&size=large).

[rab3rd]

red paper or red gel?

[DrM007]

White paper and Cokin Red Filter actualy.

[rab3rd]

I like it.

[Greg_C]

cool shot

[Ianfp]

Stunning result - I really like it!

[PhatPhoto]

That is freakin cool shot. Good computer wallpaper.
Nice work, love the color also.

[DrM007]

Thank you all for kind words. I'm glad you all like it.

[absolute beginner]

Wow that is just stunning. How did you do it?

[maximus78_06]

hey very creative. I like it!

[Hinson]

Thank you all for kind words. I'm glad you all like it.

Yes, I'd be interested in knowing your setup also!

[tbar]

great shot

[DrM007]

Happy NY guys... I'll try to explain the setup.

Used gear:
EOS 400D, Sigma 17-70 @ 70mm, F8, 1/200
Sigma EF-530 DG Super flash with Cokin A .003 Red Gel and homemade grid

This is an uncroped picture with blue gel:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/3155387123_b3c9424109.jpg
I was experimenting with blue gel as well, but didn't like the result that much. But if you crop out the books, it's still nice picture.
The paper wasn't completely white. You can see the true color of it in the middle of the picture where the flash was strongest.
This picture was taken before the red one. Setup here was a bit different than in the final shot. I'm just posting this one so it's easier to understand what I was shooting and how i managed to get even distribution of the sheets :)

Later I (carefully) rolled the paper from the left side (both pictures are straight from cam, well resized only):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/3156240134_bc0e3a4f94.jpg

Then I moved the flash from left to right and added some extra sheet under the original pile of paper to make it look like it goes all the way to the right (i had to retouch here to hide the place where two sheets meet) - here's final setup:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3156220210_a6eccf8243_o.jpg
Yes, the camera and light were that close to the shooting object. :)

Then I just moved the camera to a position where you can't see the end of paper in the back.

The flash was set to manual slave, but I can't remember the exact power setting. It was either 1/32 or 1/64. It doesn't matter really - you set it to as bright as you like. Like I said, I used the homemade grid (please don't make me show it - it looks terrible :)) and red filter. Having the flash soooo close to the object and setting its zoom to 105mm I was able to get this uneven light, where the center of the picture is this bright orange and everything else is red.
The room light was dim tungsten - just enough to make it possible for AF to lock, but nowhere near bright enough to influence the color of the picture - at shutter speed 1/200 and without the flash firing, the picture was completely black.

Gosh... going back through the post - I really like to overcomplicate things, don't I... :confused:

Anyway, if you'd like to know more, I'd be glad to help.

[Hinson]

And Happy New Year to you also. Thanks so much for the explanation. I tried something similar a while back but couldn't get it to work. The pages didn't stay like I wanted. Now that I see how you did it, I'll try again.

[Dan P.]

It's beautiful and innovative. Thank You.