Last 4th of July I planned to shoot the fireworks display but I wanted to try something a little different. Somewhere on the internet in years past I had seen what looked like sea creatures or flowers in the sky. These images were created when the photographer possibly David Johnson (but I honestly can’t remember) had “Pulled Focus” during a long exposure while the firework exploded in the frame, essentially a form of kinetic light painting. These images had been bouncing around in the back of my mind for years now, this forth of July I finally remembered them in time to give it a go. It was way more difficult than I had anticipated, From the varying brightnesses of different explosions to just simply trying to line up a shot to capture the explosion in frame, it was all pretty tough. I did get a few that I was happy with, these are not SOOC I did some minor level adjustments and also cropped the crap out of them to isolate the parts of the image that I liked. Anyway here is a video showing how it all went down, Enjoy.

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Light Painting Photographer Zach Alan is known for his magical light painting work with fire and in light of recent events, that Zach had NOTHING to do with, where 22-year-old Robyn-Lee Jansen was severely burned by a photographer who “wanted to work with fire“ Zach put together an important video detailing some of the things to keep in mind if you want to try your hand at creating images using fire! Check out the safety video below and also one of Zach’s vlog’s showing how he works safely with fire. Don’t forget to subscribe to Zach’s Youtube channel, and for God’s sake BE CAREFUL if you try any of this.

Zach also has a detailed blog post about fire safety the you can check out here for more info!