Monday, October 31, 2005

Still life with fire #1

Happy Hallowe'en. This and the photograph below are continuations of my experients using long exposures and moving flames to light a scene. I started this experiment with my October 23 blog post. This is about a 15 second exposure. I used an oil candle attached to a black metal rod to maneuver the flame through the scene. It took most of a roll of 36-exposure film to get a shot where I was sufficiently pleased with the shape of the flame track.

No real deep meaning intended with these. Just something fun I wanted to try. Boo!

Click on picture to enlarge. Photograph © 2005 James Jordan.

5 comments:

engloy said...

Very interesting and creative series! This really illustrates the idea that photography is all about painting with light! :)

Bar L. said...

AMAZING PHOTOS! I'm so glad you posted on my map, I'll be back to see more!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful shot James! I love the light trail :)

timnayar said...

That is a very great idea for photography. I want to see what else you can do with that idea. Maybe try something shaped like a glow stick or something?

Jim said...

I really enjoyed the images, particularly this one. A real eye-catcher. BAM!