On fire, they spun

[drwex]

https://picasaweb.google.com/105385377744489605309/EoS2011Spins

Finally got the photos done from last year's End-of-Summer party. Thing 1 had Strep earlier that week so we avoided taking him to the food portion of the event. Thus I don't have my usual pictures of people. We did make it for the spinning and I kind of cut loose.

A special thanks is due here to inahandbasket who both helped me debug a long-standing problem with my fire photos and who encouraged me to put the camera in multi-shot mode so I could get three images with one button press. It gave me a lot more originals to sort through but this series is probably some of my best ever:

Comments

[inahandbasket]

HTH. :)

ps: the last three in this set are my best from that same night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rstrohmh/6526810673/

[drwex]

I never can figure out how to see an entire set in Flikr. I see three spinning photos, all of which are nice, then it jumps to other things.

It's interesting that your camera seems to do better at getting lower-light/faster/clearer than mine does.

[inahandbasket]

You'll notice they're shot at a much darker exposure than your are (see garage doors).
I was really focusing that night on getting clear sharp features in some of the shots, and less on the motion, so I was shooting as high shutter speed as I could get away with and trying to time it with stable moments in a spinner's range.
I probably shot 400 frames that night and maybe 1 in 10 was anywhere close to usable. ;)

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Did you get any of me that are worth sharing?

[sariel-t.livejournal.com]

Lookin' awesome! Thanks!

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Stunning photos! Thanks for sharing ):