Fire photography

[Dean Wil]

Me and my brother are having a fire in my back garden tonight, and i was wondering if there would be an interesting way of photographing it, any tips?

Keep in mind im only using a bridge camera.

 

[Deleted member 11790]

I took some and was a little bit of trial and error with regards to settings etc as the light from fire coupled with the darkness was interesting.

The patterns were great from fire but ended cutting and cropping from main pic to get a desired result. Also shot near the base of the fire as this was the most consistent pattern

 

[Blapto]

A flash will help balance the intensity of the fire with its surroundings - experiment with adjusting the flash strength.

 

[bidden]

What about trying a long exposure shot?

 

[Deleted member 29733]

How about a nice close-up or macro. :thumbsdown:

 

[bidden]

How about a nice close-up or macro. :thumbsdown:

 

[Francesca]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/francescawise/4721521835/

My freehand attempt, not had a fire at night to play with for a while. Might have to go for a woodhunt.

 

[Rob 80386]

How about a nice close-up or macro. :thumbsdown:

If you have an old barely working camera, set it alight whist it is taking pics, that would be intresting


seriously though, experiment with aperture size and shutter speeds, flash may help, but make sure it's dialed down so it doesn't wash out the colour of the flames

 

[Tringa]

Hope you had a good fire Dean. The only ones I have done(with an FZ28) I set it on A (aperture), set it somewhere steady and hoped for the best.

Here are a few

Dave

 

[magicaxeman]

try either the firework or night shot scene modes..

 

[strumstrum]

for sharp shots I have always stuck ISO 400 and then started at the widest f/ and not gone more than 2-3 stops up.

 

[J4MIE_P]

I tend to use a realatively slow shutter speed and the camera on a tripod, great for getting some good motion in the fire

 

[Dean Wil]

Thanks for the tips guys, ill give it a try when we get the fire going and post the results tonight or tomorrow!