Playing with Fire Photo

Photographer’s Note

As the sun sets, a bare-chested traveller juggles with flaming batons. The fire illuminates his face and body with an orange glow.

Handheld at 1/15s.

This is the last picture from my Sri Lanka series. I'll be posting shots from Tallinn next.

Tue, weswang, jafadabret, cengiz, riclopes has marked this note useful

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xavshot (63137) 2006-02-06 13:55

Bonsoir Jonathan,
très impressionant ce jongleur. J'aime beaucoup le mouvement de cette photo. La lumière est très bien gérée. Beau mouvement
Bravo
Xavier

Tue (25608) 2006-02-06 14:36

Hej Jonathan,
Spectacular shot of this man and the fire. I like the warm colours in the middle of the evening light. Good work!
Hilsner,
Lars

rosaline (0) 2006-02-06 15:12

Hi Jonathan
A good shot to capture the moment. The expression of the man is quite concentrated and full of tension. A good moment you've caught. Well seen.
Aubrey

Gerrit (36313) 2006-02-06 16:27

Hi Jonathan,

good sharpness for a handhold nightshot. Real flaming colours.

Thanks and regards, Gerrit

weswang (18223) 2006-02-06 18:10

Hi Jonathan, You have well captured the fun and the intensity of the fire juggler. Excellent moment to see the face expression and the dynamics of the fire movement. Well done.

Cormac (26455) 2006-02-06 22:42

This is impressive for a handheld shot at that shutterspeed and level of darkness. I couldn't believe it when I saw the large version, because it looks much clearer than the thumbnail (how does that happen?). Very well executed shot!

jafadabret (40369) 2006-02-07 2:12

Jonathan, les mouvements des bras du jongleur sont bien suggérés par la vitesse de l'obturation. La lumière et les couleurs sont au top. Belle réalisation !

cengiz (3581) 2006-02-07 4:26

very good shot my friend
congragulations again
cengiz

riclopes (33135) 2006-02-07 5:12

Hi Jonathan,
Wonderful shots from this place you have been delievering. I like this captured, not an easy one to get well. Good result at 1/15s handheld! I love the bright fire and his iluminated expression of concentration. well done with the secenery in the background.
Ricardo

BlaiseCendrars (0) 2006-02-07 6:07

Wow Jonathan, that is coool! What a superb, concentrated face expression you have captured using the flash of nature's elements - ingenious.
Great work, looking forward to Tallinn.

Cheers mate,
Chris

gebala (0) 2006-02-07 7:29

hello, playing with the fire is really danger ;) we have many people in our center where they do it, I like watching it:) here I like warm colours, nice close photo:) I hope that you are all right ;)
best wishes

thebecky (686) 2006-02-16 7:49 [Comment]

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sarju (5308) 2006-02-19 23:21

Hi jon
good control over the exposure and good choice of the slow shutter speed to render a small motion blur to the flames.
thanks for sharing this one
regards .... sarju