Taken in my backyard at a brushpile that had built up over the past couple of months. If you can see the face in the shot, it is purely the contents of the flames. Nothing has been added, just slightly enhanced.
Converted from raw, cropped, levels, color balanced to drop the reds a little and resized.
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That is some flame. Looking at your submisison to the Stupid challenge I get enough perspective to know it was really huge.
The existing comments give you the main feedback I think you need to consider - colour. This is a great big roaring blaze so viewers expect it to be very strong on the 'warm' colour tones - red, yellow and orange. As it stands the relatively soft, gentle colour that you have just doens't look hot. There are two ways you could have rectified this: in camera or post-processing.
- The in-camera solution would have been to reduce your exposure so the flames don't blow-out. It may be a night shot, but I would have suggested an ISO of 100 because you were directly shooting a huge light source. You could potentially sped up the shutter-speed too. In such an environment I recommend you play around with the exposure - checking the histogram and image to confirm you have it right.
- In post-processing it would have been possible to play around with levels, saturation and contract to bring out the reds and oranges that are there. The purest in me would prefer to see such things taken care of when capturing the shot though.
I hope my comments help and Good Luck in future Challenges!
I would have loved to see you play up the fact this flame looks like a dress. Just for a creative approach other than - hey I captured some fire. Not sure what other critique I would give than the previous comments about the flatness - your flames appear almost pink
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