Fighting Fire
This chilly weekend we decided to light a fire in the fireplace and this provided a great opportunity for me to experiment with my camera in an indoor setting. I really liked the idea of trying to get good shots of fire, but fire doesn't cooperate!
It was still a great learning opportunity and warm unlike the outdoors.
I took photos at all stages of the fire from the initial lighting through the end when it was starting to die down.
I tried auto settings, Scene, Aperture priority and ART settings. The challenges included:
Focus
With moving flames I found my camera's auto focus kept trying to focus on the logs rather than the flames or the back of the firebox.
Sharpness
When I did get it to focus on the flames, they were fluid and interesting but often not as sharp as what I was seeing with my eyes. Some of the settings that did add sharpness sacrificed color intensity in the flames.
Composition
I found I was focusing my attention on so many things that I forgot to think about composition. Thankfully, cropping later can fix some of that so this, for now, is something for improvement later.
Below are samples of the day.
And just to show what it actually looked like, here is a slo-mo video
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