Plans For The Shoot:
For this shoot I want to explore the relationship of elements particularly water and fire as they are opposed to each other. It might not work but I want to set fire to water (actually lighter fluid on water) to see if I can get some good effects and in the hope that I will also get some nice reflections.
What I Actually Achieved:
I set up my fish tank with clean water in a dark room. I have learnt from previous shoots that a good exposure is around 200th sec at f7.1 ISO 200.In this shoot I squirted lighter fluid on the surface of the water in my tank and set light to it. Then using 6 frames per second in manual mode I continuously shoot until the flames went out.
I liked the images but I could not get much of a reflection just a bit at the bottom of the images. In Photoshop I had the idea of reflecting the image on water line which looked better but then by turning the image through 90° I got what I think is a really imaginative image. This was not what I was aiming for when undertaking this shoot but the end result surpassed my expectations.
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| This images surpassed what I was trying to achieve in mixing the elements of fire and water and almost ended up as a piece of art. |
Actually I want to move away from studio work and want to concentrate on outdoor work for the remainder of this project. I think that it might be interesting to still use fire on water but in a natural environment. So for my next shoot I plan to shoot a small pond that I know of in my local forest. I plan to spray lighter fluid onto the surface of the water then set it on fire and take photos of the lake.
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| In this image we see a fire circle in the middle of a lake. It almost seems like a fire portal to an underwater world. This would be an interesting thing to try and re-create but I think it would be very hard to do in the pond I plan to use. |
