Playing with Fire

Take two families and friends,

Add in a few egg whisks. each attached to about a metre of strong ripcord line,

A good supply of fine grade steel wool,

Set up on a river, one camera out in the river and one camera on the beach, each with a synchronised remote trigger

Light the wool and spin the whisk around

- and here’s what you get …

And then I let everyone else have a turn …

As you can see there are two photos in each frame. Each of these were taken at the same time, using two
different cameras, triggered at the same time.

One camera, a Nikon D200, was set up with an Nikon 18-200 VR2 lens, positioned squarely in front of
the spinner, and about 50 metres away.

The second camera, a Nikon D300s with a Sigma 10-20mm Ultra Wide Angle lens, was tripod mounted and
positioned in the river, very roughly 90 degrees offest from the first camera and at a similar distance. The
river being at low tide helped, as I was able to get the camera WAY out into the river, ensuring a load of water
between the camera and the subject, and those wonderful reflections are the result.

Triggering was courtesy of a set of Yongnuo RF-603N remote triggers – one on each camera and
one in my hand down on the beach as the primary trigger. A lot of people don’t like these triggers,
but when you take into consideration the price and how robust they are you really can’t beat them.