Firelight and Light-Painting

Sometimes you get lucky. Josh here is standing in front of a fairly large camp fire, hence the orange-glow. It was shot at 50mm, f/1.8 - I needed all the light I could get. The amazing part is the fact that it was taken at a whopping ISO 3200 (I'm sure I'll laugh at that a few years from now). Even at 100%, the detail is still there - the only significant noise I got was some color noise, barely noticeable though - surprising too. I didn't bump the ISO up to 6400 because I knew my results would come out dirty - stopping the action wasn't as important as actually getting the shot. It's always a compromise...

Now for the light-painting.

No, this isn't a tutorial on light-painting, you can find those just about anywhere else. Our group here was having fun char-broiling marshmallows so we decided to put them to good use. Long exposure, ambient light, and some fun people - that's about it.

Oh, I should also mention that neither of these shots were even touched in post-production. I really didn't see a need. No cropping, curves, or saturation adjustments, just organic shots.