If you ever try your hand at light painting photography with burning steel wool, be extra careful with safety and legality. Just a few months after a photographer allegedly destroyed a historic shipwreck in California with his sparks, another steel wool photo shoot has burned down a historic 1920s building in a US national preserve.
Warning: This post contains graphic photos and descriptions of a serious injury.
As a wedding photographer, there are so many different parts of the day we temporarily pause in being a photographer and magically transform into a seamstress, a planner, a mediator, a therapist and any number of other jobs. We are the only vendor outside of videographers who are with our clients all day.
It’s one of the parts of my career that I love -- no wedding day is ever the same and I get “re-charged” from the people families I meet. Because of this, I've always (in the past) considered myself more then a “photographer,” but rather someone who's there to help in any way I can (while still doing my jobs) should the need arise.
Denver, Colorado-based action, adventure, and lifestyle photographer Dave Lehl recently wanted to do something a little different with skateboarding photography, and ended up settling on the idea of using fireworks to add extra action to the shots.