omg this looks soo freaking kewl

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it was too freeking kewl for words so i took a quicktime movie!

yay thats totally killer ^^

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Nice choice of location/event... but could be so much BETTER!!

If you'd propped the camera up somehow, or even better --used a tripod (borrowed one if you didn't have?) the shakiness would be eliminated (or at least reduced, since people move)... (that is all assuming that you didn't use any of these)

Framing is nice though, I like how you can see the circle of fire around the glowing figure, which almost looks like an angel with it all blurry...

but what were you focusing on?

Also, did you use flash? The lighting on the front people is a bit odd... I would've left it sitting with a long exposure without flash, and then you'd get people milling about and blurring together, along with a crisp green glowing dude, and some streaks of fire dancers...

mmmm... would be sweet!

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Well let's see
I was balancing on an art car with the engine running, hence the vibration. I was focussing on infinity and the foreground is lit by the lights of the art car.

If you've ever been to Burning Man you know you cannot use tripod or flash. The first because you will never see over anyone's head and it would still be on the moving art car anyway; the latter because the playa dust kicks up and makes white flashy spots in every picture. I was standing next to the guy from the San Francisco Chronicle who was shooting a D100 and I was using my CoolPix. He actually liked this image - his camera was unable to capture anything even remotely like it.

Thank you so much for your comments, if there were any way of getting a "BETTER" image out there, one or more of the 370 photos that I took of the fire alone would be posted here instead of this one.

D.A. continues to amaze me. Some people are so nice, friendly, ask questions about how images came to be and other people are opinionated without data.

Well let's see
I was balancing on an art car with the engine running, hence the vibration. I was focussing on infinity and the foreground is lit by the lights of the art car.

If you've ever been to Burning Man you know you cannot use tripod or flash. The first because you will never see over anyone's head and it would still be on the moving art car anyway; the latter because the playa dust kicks up and makes white flashy spots in every picture. I was standing next to the guy from the San Francisco Chronicle who was shooting a D100 and I was using my CoolPix. He actually liked this image - his camera was unable to capture anything even remotely like it.

Thank you so much for your comments, if there were any way of getting a "BETTER" image out there, one or more of the 370 photos that I took of the fire alone would be posted here instead of this one.

D.A. continues to amaze me. Some people are so nice, friendly, ask questions about how images came to be and other people are opinionated without data.

Wow! What an ordeal!

:-P

Oh, and I'm really not that nice or friendly... you just have to get to know me...

O_o

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Yeah, it is kind of funny when the comments come from 19 year olds with plastic toy cameras. Takes a while sometimes to learn how much more there is to learn. Is he old enough yet to qualify as a GWC?

I think your burning man work is awesome, especially given the very harsh and challenging conditions. I've seen a lot of shots from there taken by full-time working pros but not half as good as yours. And I've been doing this a day or two.

regarding the tripod issue: you can compensate by using one or both of an image-stabilizing lens (canon's IS spec or nikon's VR spec), and have the camera mounted on a 3' pipe with a ~3-5lb weight on the bottom (pipe hanging down vertically from the camera, results in having much more inertia, thus less shake) Also, you can increase your ISO sensitivity so you can proportionately raise your shutter speed. It took me a while to accept that higher noise levels are a necessary compromise for reducing motion/vibration blur.

and the flash issue: if it's within your budget, get a remote flash head, obviously battery powered, or an extension for your speedlight. i took a few flash photos at BM this year with my speedlight about 3 feet away from the lens, and it completely eliminated the luminous dust particles, as well as red-eye in my subjects' eyes. with a higher-powered remote flash, you could also use an umbrella to make the shadows less harsh.

and where credit is due: i love it; it's a beautiful photo. especially because i know how difficult it was to focus and take the shot long enough for you to get adequate light.

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