It's Islamic New Year so we were given two unexpected days off of work- yea!! With this little gift, the photo club decided to go play with fire in the desert. We reflected on the experiences from Eid and we finally had all the kinks worked out. We have working equipment and a good location. We did have some challenges finding more steel wool but when we found it we bought bags and bags of it, so I think we're good for awhile. :)
Since my car only fits 7 people max we ended up going out two nights in a row to accommodate as many people as we could. I really like working with the random graffiti wall that is out there- I think it really adds to the pictures- but that road is still somewhat busy. I think they have a big kegger going on out there or something. The cars coming and going.... it just feels like there's a kegger going on. It just gets a little annoying because we have to wait for cars to pass so it slows us down. It would be nice if we could find a beach location with the water--- that would be cool. I'm going to find that for the next one.
Here are pretty much all the pics we shot. The first night we just kept trying different ways to spin the wool and different angles to shoot it from. The second night we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make the umbrella shots look how we wanted them to. We never REALLY got what I wanted with that. We'll have to do that again.
*btw- I don't remember if I mentioned how this is done before, but basically it's that fine steel wool inside a metal whisk that is attached to a leash. You light the steel wool and fire and then spin it. Sparks go flying out. It looks cool in the photos with the long exposure. It's cool in real life but now as dangerous as it looks in the photos. More like a sparkler.
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