Day 104

10/22/10

"LIVE"

A reminder to myself to just live my life.

(Shot in one exposure. Out of all the ones I took, this was the best, though obviously could be better. Its the thought that was important to me. I did this at 3:30am too, without a tripod.)

Day 29

8/8/10

"Lights on Regent"

Today I had a nice relaxed and slow day. I spent most of the day editing photos from the past 4 days, and I didn't really get a chance to find something particularly interesting to shoot. Instead of doing something concrete, I went out (into the harsh biting mosquitoes, which I wasn't expecting) and took a long (3 seconds at 3.5 f stop) exposure photo. Then I went and just played with dials, in all honesty, until this blue-tone photo came out. Pretty cool colors here.

Firestorm Shoot

I wanted to share some of the 50+ photos I got last night at the fire spinner shoot. The beginning of the shoot caught me unprepared, as I had just walked up on the beginning, when one of the group began to hula-hoop. I only got my tripod out to catch the next part of the show, but those pictures I did get with a tripod were fantastic. Click any of these photos for a much larger shot.

"First Time Fire-Dancer"

The next few photos were done with the performer using a flaming hookshot.

"Snake"

"Alpha"

"Burning the Air"

I'd like to note how much I like this photo just because of the vortex that you can see of the flames, and the individual little tongues of flame as well. A bit over exposed, but I thought I might as well try many settings just in case I was missing out on something, and I have to say I really like the results.

"Butterfly Effect"

These photos are of a performer with a flaming staff.

"Light at Our Backs"

"Bending the Atom"

This last set of photos is of the performer with flaming poi.

"Ring of Fire"

"Flower"

"Ying and Yang"

"Buzz Saw"

"Kamehameha"

Day 11

7/21/10

"Firestorm"

This photo you HAVE to click to see larger. It was a great night. I wanted to shoot some more HDR, so I made my way to a spot I had picked out to take long exposure shots of traffic from a good vantage point. I was so lucky that that required me to bring my tripod, because on the way back, one of this guys lady friends was starting to hula-hoop with a flaming hoop. I didn't get the tripod out in time to shoot clear shots of the hula girl, but when the guys saw me shooting he pointed out where I should be (far enough away from the fire, and with my tripod), lit his hookshot and went to town. I have a bunch of photos that I will process later, but this shot, at 200 ISO, 1.6", f5, is completely untouched. Not one dial was moved during conversion from RAW.

Seriously. Click it. Make it bigger. Use it as a desktop background. For real.