During earth hour my city arranged for a fire show. It was a nice event and here is some picture from it. The fire performers are called Favilla.

I have not tried to take picture of fire before so this was a good experience to learn which setting that suited me the most. I have used a Canon 60D with a prime lens of 40mm. I have tried different apertures to see which one that suited the most. If you move the mouse over the pictures you will find out the setting that I have used for each picture. It might be useful for you when you want to try to take pictures of fire. The settings worked for me and might work for you too.

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 1000 ISO

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 2500 ISO

F:5.6 @ 1/56 , 2500 ISO

F:2.8 @ 1/80 , 1250 ISO

What is common with all the pictures is that the pictures where taken without a flash. Most of the pictures are also cropped to remove unnecessary elements that take away the focus from the performers. Some pictures might have a green light because I had my Circular Polaris filter on as I do not have a UV filter for this lens yet. The CPL filter will also have made some effect to the picture even though I did not pay much attention to the filter and did not turn it because I only wanted to test the setting on the camera at this event.

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 400 ISO

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 500 ISO

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 1250 ISO

When I took the pictures I choose tungsten in the white balance mode.

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 2000 ISO

All the pictures are taken handheld, no tripod have been used. I love the sparks from the fire in this picture.

F:2.8 @ 1/56 , 2000 ISO

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