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[079/365] – Cold Flame

by on 17. May, 2010 in Project365

Cold Flame

Tonight I cut the big candle I have in half, so I could get a shot of the flames from directly to the side. I never use the candle other than for photography fun, so I don’t really mind that I’m destroying it bit by bit :) Maybe next time I’ll cut the other half of the stuff off, and have the flames flying free in the air.

I liked the shape of the central flame on this one. I tried a ton of different settings, different f/stops and different shutter speeds. I like the lower f/5.6 that this one is, because the background is a bit blurry, in the f/8 and f/11 shots and above, it’s very sharp and clear, and I think it distracts from the flames themselves.

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[039/365] – Homebrew by Candlelight

by on 14. May, 2010 in Project365

Homebrew by CandlelightThis is a bottle of my homebrew, it’s a witbier, that I brewed back in the summer sometime. I set up a few bottles behind a candle on my coffee table in the living room and snapped off a bunch of shots. I like this one a lot, great shadows, it might look better as B&W, although it’s too dusty…

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[034/365] – Candle

by on 14. May, 2010 in Project365

CandleWhile surfing the web today I saw a great Project365 with this cool picture of a candle and decided I wanted to play with some candle shots tonight. Sadly, I don’t have a single stick candle like that, so all I had to play with was my big 3 wick candle. I couldn’t replicate the shot from his site, but I did end up with a neat effect I think. I spent a long time playing with different shutter speeds and different apertures. I ended up using the TV in the living room as a slight blue tinge on this shot. I’m a fan :)

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