Playing With Fire

A late summer's evening around a campfire when everyone else was relaxing and reflecting on the day that had almost finished, saw me (no surprise) looking for other opportunities to get some photos. I had shot a few candids using the glow of the bonfire, but I ended up concentrating of the flames.

For this shot, I set the drive to continuos (6.5fps) and selected this shot just as the hot ash was in mid-air.


All these shots were taken on my old Helios 58mm lens at an aperture of F4-F5.6. Iso was set to 400 to allow for a resonable shutter speed.

A simple adjustment of contrast was added to make the shadows darker to remove distractions.