Fire and light

IMG_9869, originally uploaded by M.Prophet Photography.

A few years back I photographed a good friend of mine, Kriss (Raingirl), lighting a cigarette with a molotov cocktail as seen here:



Since then I've been very interested in combining fire and studio light to create some portraits. Well, recently I met a few wonderful people who happen to play with fire in fantastic ways. It simply made sense..

So we got together the other day and I began experimenting. It was actually quite a bit more challenging than expected because the flames go from super bright, to fairly dim rather quickly, constantly needing exposure adjustments, meanwhile the studio lights stay consistent, but I also wanted the background environment to stay dark and lastly I didn't want too much light from the fire to illuminate the subjects! Ok, truth is, it's not THAT difficult to grasp, however the window of time to grab the perfect shot doesn't last too long so I did what I could. I want to experiment more with this, there are some awesome possibilities here, it's just a matter of me becoming more familiar with lighting spinning fire poi and lighting the subject.. More to come soon!

oh, also, played with glow hoops a bit too, I really enjoy creating abstracts with these.. They look great!



The poi spinner is Danielle Sholly, Kim Forman rocked the glow hoop in these shots.