light & (darkly)

There’s nothing to do here…

… some just whine and complain.

Bring the buckets by the dozens.
Bring your nieces and cousins.
Put out the fire on us.

Decided to do a little flash exercise. I wanted to stop out the ambient light while matching the matchstick and flame with a flash. It actually turned out to be a lot easier than I thought–matches are deceivingly bright. I used a snooted SB-600⁽¹⁾ at 1/16th power to the camera left, slightly in front of the matches (as a raking light to bring out the texture in the wood), It was remotely triggered by my on-camera flash.

Here’s the EXIF for the top photo. All of them⁽²⁾ should be the same.

Here are the outtakes and result.

And finally, here’s a little Cold War Kids:

1. with a slightly blue tint [↩]
2. except for the pile of used matches [↩]