god does not play dice

resize only . any and all comments welcome .

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That's cool. Exactly 2 nights before that photo was taken, I took a bunch of fire poi photos here in Missouri.

thanks spiral . were the ones in missouri as good looking as this ?

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I like the motion blur in the second better because the subject is fairly still. but the fire is in motion.

Well, in terms of the people doing it, or the resulting photos?
If you're talking about the photos, I'd say probably so. If you're talking about the performer, not likely.

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cool photos ! my performer is still the best though .

Edie wins the best performer contest

Eddie, the first shot has so much motion blur that I couldn't figure out what it was. The second is nice. The third is a bit too dark.

SpiralPhoto, it looks like you used a flash with 2nd-curtain sync. Nice effects. Did the performers complain at you about the flash?

thanks for the input gkuenning . i pretty much agree with what you said , i was trying to push the limits at both ends just to see what i could get away with . the last one would have been great if the torch she was holding was six inches farther forward , there was so little light that timing was everything . here is a couple of more conventional shots and a really extreme blur one .

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gkuenning wrote in post #2152395
SpiralPhoto, it looks like you used a flash with 2nd-curtain sync. Nice effects. Did the performers complain at you about the flash?

Actually no. They knew why I was there. Any time these guys throw an event, I'm there with the machine. Everytime. The guy in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th pics came with me to that place. I didn't know he knew how to swing fire, but wwhen we got to the place where this was going on and the guy before him stopped doing it, he looked at me and said "Watch this". As far as the 2nd curtain goes, it was actually 1st curtain. The flash fired at the beginning of the exposure, not the end.