Category: Fire

How a photographer created fantastic light painting with fire

Dunja Djudjic

“Playing with fire” denotes something dangerous and with a possible negative outcome. But in photography, playing with fire can be exactly the opposite. If you do it right, it can lead to fantastic and creative images. Photographer ‎Zach Smidt gave us an excellent example of this. His image named The Ritual is playing with fire at […]

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This photographer created phoenix wings by light painting with real fire

John Aldred

Light painting is something many of us try at some point in our photographic journey. Some of us just make a brief visit into this world, but others make it their home. One such photographer is Derek VanAlthuis, an avid light painter who’s produced some outstanding work. One such image is the one above. When I […]

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How to add extra details in a photo after the shot using Photoshop

Clinton lofthouse

When creating images its always good to add some extra details just to keep things interesting. I recently shot a cover feature for alternative lifestyle magazine, Proper eye candy, with Madison Phoenix. The plan was to shoot some moody images using gels. I also wanted smoke, but alas, at the time I didn’t have a […]

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I lit fitness gear on fire and shot athletes using it, here is how it looks like

Brandon Wells

[editor’s note: I was surprised at how casually the athletes treated the fire. I mean, it has to hot, and that size of a flame up close can be quite intimidating. I asked Brandon about it  and he told DIYP that: “The safety and comfortability of the athletes was priority in this shoot, so making […]

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Burning wire wool through a macro lens becomes a raging firestorm

John Aldred

When the whole wire wool thing was pretty cool and new a decade or more ago, many photographers stocked up. Then the idiots discovered it. These days, it’s become a bit of a boring and cliché subject. Some of us, though, still have mountains of the stuff sitting in our garage that we could never possibly use. […]

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Aerial Perspective – The depth your images have been consciously missing.

Joseph Parry

Something I’m going to be touching on today is referred to in the painting world as “Aerial Perspective”, a way, if not “the” way to create depth in your images. When you see pictures of mountains, or landscapes you’ll often notice that they are coated with fog, clouds, smoke, steam, etc in order to make […]

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Monroe Station in Big Cypress reduced to ashes after steel wool spin shot gone wrong

Udi Tirosh

Now, this is why we cannot have nice things. While I am not enjoying saying this, it looks like photographers are slowly earning the bad cred that authorities are giving them. After shuttering a 126 old statue for a selfie, it is now revealed that the fire on The Big Cypress Monroe Station last month was […]

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Local Landmark Shipwreck in California Burnt Out for Instagram Photo

John Aldred

Perched on a sand bank in Tomales Bay, CA, the ship nicknamed the “S.S. Point Reyes” has sat for a great number of years, left to rot and decay naturally.  The exact number of years it’s been there is something of a local secret, adding to the mystery of the wreck, which has been a significant […]

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