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I actually posted this same question over at digital-photography-school.com, and got few responses at first, but then the photographer of one of the “sample perfect shot”s that i posted as an example showed up and gave some fantastic advice. i’ll post the link below just to add it to the info here at farktography..

http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showpost.php?p=256202&postcount=3

[aesoprock-00]

just wanted to post a little follow up. this week in addition to fire we had some folks with Ogg Glow Poi, which produced a lot of cool shots on its own. but here’s just one shot (of many that i took) that i used the Flash in Rear Mode as suggested by sleeping.

all of the pictures taken can be seen here: http://www.joyofpoi.com/fire/08202008/all
or broken down by individual spinner here: http://www.joyofpoi.com/fire/08202008

it’s a little bright/washed out, but that’s with the built in flash on the Nikon D40. I’m going to look into playing with some flash settings, as well as getting an external flash.

[aesoprock-00]

eventually i’d like to get better equipment, flashes and the like, i just can’t afford or justify it yet. our next fire session is on Wednesday, and i’d like to play around with getting close and using even just the built in flash, to see if it works. thanks for the thoughts sleeping

[aesoprock-00]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larslarsen/2540957128/in/set-72157603483451666/

here’s another one, and though this guy says in the comment of the photo
“Poi spinner lit with two remote 580ex-II flashes on light stands at 45 degree angles on ETTL. ISO 100, exposure: 2 seconds at f/5.0 “

i wonder if there’s an amateur or poor man’s way of doing it similarly, without 2 remote flashes on light stands. but then again, maybe there isn’t.

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