A tighter crop would have helped eliminate some of the background, which I find somewhat distracting. But I love the way she appears in different places at the same time - really cool.
This was a good idea for this challenge, definitely fire is featured and in an interesting way. Unfortunately the long exposure doesn't enhance what you are bringing out because the 'ghost' created by the girl's movements and the blurr in the background likely due to camera shake impacts the image negatively (at least for me). I think a tripod would have been a good choice as the movement in the background would've been eliminated which would then give a nice clean/crisp starting point. That would help balance out the ghosting found by the moving girl a bit. Still, due to all the light, you CAN see the ghosting of the girl and though that may work sometimes, I don't feel it does here. Instead, had it been darker so the girl was actually rather 'invisible' then the focus would be on the dancing fire and there wouldn't be the other issues distracting from it. That said, I think it was a good choice to try and capture and I bet another try would yield even better results. I gave a 4
it's a dramatic image, but i think it suffers a little from the camera being hand held (use a table if without tripod), and to be honest, the girl dancing around too much. in terms of composition, i feel that you could get away with having her centred because the right half of the frame looks a bit redundant, and the blur of camaera movement is more apparent here. or alternatively, go mad with the burn tool; you're allowed to and blackening out a lot of the background would draw principal attention back to the girl. the ghost effect of the girl is a bit unnerving (her second head is creepy!) and the "i'm a little teapot" pose that she's now doing feels a bit silly... i do sympathise; i've tried shooting similar performers and it's a right bitch! 6 for the drama and the high difficulty level.
This shot badly needs a tripod to keep the background details in focus whikle the fire dancer does her thing. The motion blur on her is nice, but especially off to the right you can see a lot of camera motion.
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