Burn Day...
2007-11-01
Nikon D70 ISO 640 f4 @ 1/30th
Nikon D70 ISO 400 f4 @ 1/45th
Nikon D70 ISO 400 f4 @ 1/45th
Nikon D70 ISO 640 f4 @ 1/180TH.
At work yesterday we had to go to the burn building for our annual live burn training.
So I thought a little interior firefighting action would be appropriate for today's post. These images were all shot on the interior of the burn building while the fires were burning.
If you noticed above I used the D70 today. Since the temperatures in these rooms can be anywhere from 500 to 1000 degrees I was a little unsure about taking the D2X in.
The equipment worked really well. The only problem I had was some fogging on the lens from the extreme temperature changes and steam production.
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I really like the light in the first and last ones. Very dramatic!!
Yeah, the first one rocks. I'm not certain that the Lucis filter works well for you in many images. It calls attention to itself rather than your ideas and the emotion of the scenes you communicate. Perhaps if you used it more subtly? But in this first image, if it is there, it is just a compliment to the final statement. Plus the way you've allowed the light to build the composition here is hot (no pun,honest).
Ted
Hey Ted--
Thanks for the honest feedback. The filter is something that I wrestle with almost each time I use it.
I agree that sometimes it does kinda say hey look at me and you spend more time looking at the effect than you do the image it's self.
One interesting thing is that the 'consumers' of my fire ground images love it. I get more requests for images that have obviously been treated that way than any others. So for the fire images I think as long as they like it there will be some that come down that way.
I do not use it as much or at all in the nature and landscape images. I have been using it in some portraits.
In this series of images the only one where it was applied was the last one where it is obvious.
The other images pretty much were processed as shot with some minor adjustments.
The smoke particulate and lack of lighting as well as the fogging of the lens seem to add just enough of their own effect.
Plus the idea behind this series for the most part was to show the job/environment from the view of the guys working on the inside.
I am glad you liked the first one. I did as well. The problem with images shot in this environment is that many people will not like them because of all of the natural effects that I mentioned before.
But to truly understand what we do, I think that viewers really need to see it the way we do. The only thing missing is the heat and restricted breathing, oh and the adrenalin...lol
A+. Fewer times I saw such photos of a fire (even if the fire is for training purpose). Very well done.
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