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vangenius (143) 2007-01-02 13:55 [Comment]

Iuli (838) 2007-01-02 15:09

Hi Isabela!

"As vrea sa simt ca si crezi in aceste cuvinte!" said a friend of mine to me once doubting the truthfulness of some statements I was making at that time. "I wish I believed you" I could say now. Very nice note.

I love these fire macros. I have a bunch of them myself in my archive and some day I might just post one on TE too. I love these half rainbow color gradients, red-orange-yellow, and the realy strong contrast in the picture between the hotest flames and the cool background or the not yet touched by the fire wood blocks. Composition wise I don't like the missing peaks of those flames in the left upper corner but it's not a big deal. Nice shot.

By the way, do you know why you can only see half of the rainbow spectrum in the wood fire stoves? It's a very simple explanation. Scientifically it's called "black body radiation" and of course the interaction with the eye is important too.
The wood becomes bright, visible as fire, because it gets hot. When stuff is just warm we can't see this radiation though it still exists. As something gets hotter the radiation becomes visible as red (the begining of the visible spectrum) then as yellow (as the bunch of radiation "colors" shifts more and more) and eventually it turns white which means that it contains all the visible colors of the spectrum (those we know by name since childhood) but they're just mixed up and we can't see them separate without help. If you used a prism to look at a white flame you could see'em all. The answer to the question I posed above is that wood can't get hotter than it usually does. Let's assume it could get hotter. Then the bunch of "colors" will move even further such that eventually there will be very little yellows and reds and even less of the invisible, infrared "colors". You will start seeing the greens and blues as the bunch of colors moves toward ultraviolet (UV radiation). However these blues and greens will be harder to see as everything is whitish due to the presence of some reds and yellows. So in a very very very hot fire you might see some greenish or bluish colors but very faint (something like the way a light bulb's light is yellowish) as you are blinded by the hot fire. Hope you and some of your visitors will find this explanation interesting.

TFS, Isabela.
Iulian

sadeik (3159) 2007-01-02 17:26

A fire is always nice to see, but even more so to sit next too.
What makes this image so pleasing is the shelled out corn on the cob in the fire.
An amazing amount of shades of red, orange and black.

Happy New Year.

India I can visit time and time again but for short periods. Romania, well I could walk the lenght and breadth and probably not get tired of it. Mind you those Himalayas, they are like a beacon, almost nothing so beautiful but then I was always a mountaineer.

partha (13667) 2007-01-02 21:55

Hi isabela ,
A good note and u extracted a nice photograph from a very simple situation.
U have a good photographing eye.Honing it.
Regards.
partha

Muse (31059) 2007-01-03 3:57

Bonsoir Isabelle,
Une photo très particulière..que j'aime beaucoup;
The beauty of the life..c'est très bien choisi comme expression;
Superbe couleurs et lumière qui donnent le "feu"..
Bien vu Isabelle.
Best regards
Denise

newtintin (1872) 2007-01-03 7:35

Hello,
Very beautiful composition,
It is really very pretty is very poetic, I find,
the colors of fire are very beautiful, and clearness is perfect.

greeting,
R.A.F

khafes (303) 2007-01-03 11:24

Hi Isabela,
I need to have one days thus very calm as you describe, because my life is always to run. How much the photo is very pretty with excellent colors and contrast.
Great photo,
Paulo Monteiro

flatwin (1936) 2007-02-02 15:39

bonsoir

tres belle prise de vue de ce brasier avec de superbes couleurs .

arnaud

japiey (9521) 2007-05-05 15:55 [Comment]