Took some gorgeous fire spinning shots with my fiancee. No lighting used other than the fire itself. I would've loved to have had a rear flash go off to capture her pose, but when you're in a neighborhood at 1 am spinning fire, you don't want a bright flash attracting attention, heh. There's a bit of fuzziness that I don't like due to the high ISO (I'm still a noobie, forgot to flick it down a few notches), but aside from that I thought it came out very pretty.
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Your center framing works well for the composition on this but the background only distracts. This shot would be well served on a clean, black background. If possible I would suggest composing the shot so that the background was mostly empty space.
The lighting, aka the fire, gives off a bit of an odd color to the ground and background, perhaps a long shutter speed coupled with a rear curtain sync flash would help that. The image is a bit noisy and I think you could have dropped the iso down quite a bit since you were using such a long shutter speed.
I would suggest not as long of a shutter speed, 15 seconds is a really long time and 3 seconds would have been plenty and you could have gotten smoother light trails and the whole image would flow better (example here )
Challenge:
Meets the challenge but it doesn’t scream “dance”. If this wasn’t entered in a dance challenge I am not sure I would think this was a photo of dancing but regardless I like your take on the subject and it was interesting.
Artistic/Emotion:
This has all the makings of a really artistic shot but for me some technical work takes away from that.
Summary:
Not a bad finish at all for your third challenge and great job on a personal best. This shot scored very well for the challenge and you received some excellent comments during voting, all in all I would say it is a success.
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