Obviously great photo! Congratulations on your success! (I am curious,...Did you get some of the muted tones in the fire by heavy use of darkening the highlights feature of Shadows/Highlights? I am mostly just curious to see if my eye is still on-target with analysis of greatness.) Truly you have a great eye & post-process skills! :)
So help me understand Laurie...you dressed in black, coloured your face with black shoe polish, headed out to the woods with your matches and petrol and your Lowepro with the camera and lens, lit the fire on some unsuspecting family's home, and when they ran out you went click, click, click, then ran back into the bushes where you came from. Would that be about right??? AND you made the local papers!!!! It's amazing what crimes people get away with these days!
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Well you deserve the ribbon for all that trouble, and the family was insured, right? so they get the new house they always wanted. Well done...everyone wins :)
Wow, Laurie... love the reduced exposure, keeping all that detail in the flames and putting focus right there. The mood this dark image creates is really powerful. Love it.
Nothing at all against Tim's shot, but I would have picked this for first because it is so intense and dramatic. The exposure on the flames just seems perfect to me and it was at just the right time of the evening. Superb! And a huge hug and congrats on that ribbon!!
What perfect timing. It's all more often when something like this happens the day before, or the day after a challenge ends! This is awesome! Most deserving of top honors! Congratulations.
What a super great score and equally a super great image..... I love this and you so deserve that great score and the placement..... Excellent..... I also loved the story behind the image.....
I like how you arranged for Art/Ken to burn a village for you! Seriously, 'grats on a great score and a pretty new accessory on your profile page. Bigger 'grats for getting to do the shoot and having the shots used in the paper!
wow! that is an incredible photo story you have there.......I actually really love the smiling portraits as the fire was controlled! I'm sure you're proud of those photo's....
Wow, that's pretty intense! Nice capture. I don't like that the flames are cropped out at the top, but I won't count it against you, those flames were probably pretty high!
this is really impressive fire! I would have tried to include whole upper part of flames in front - similar to back side - don't know how high they go :)
Very dramatic and I'm guessing not staged, which must be the first I've voted on in this challenge so thats nice to see. Could perhaps have pushed the constrast higher still with levels or curves to deepen the blacks as there is hardly any detail there anyway on my display and a building silhouette would have been stunning. The tree in the background is a shame.
I shoot for a fire department and have some amazing pictures. I have to say this is a great image. I might of cropped the right side in a little more. How did you get this shot? Where was the fire department?
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