hills on fire near Pacific Coast Highway
Jan, 2014Views
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pegleg
April 25, 2014
i looked at this photo before and do not know why i did not leave a coment, love it so much, as the other person said, such beauty in disaster
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Bruz
April 25, 2014
I wasn't sure if I should post it. To me it seems slightly out of focus. It was a crazy fire and the best photos I could have gotten, I was very busy fighting a serious fire and lots of crazy things happening. I was on this fire for over 80 hours straight.
Kazza60
April 25, 2014
An awesome composition .. I can feel the heat in the haze and the urgency in the streamed lights
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SnowbunnyPhotography
May 20, 2014
Oh my gosh Ron!! This is crazy....I bet the heat was intense....hope they got the fires out, and were able to save some of the forest. :-(
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FrankSomma
November 28, 2014
Gotta live through these to believe they can be real. oooooouuuu that smell, can you smell that smell. Nothing like it. Wonderfully capture Ron!
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shema
May 05, 2015
terrible wildfire, great shot, tu for fighting these fires and long hours, stay safe! another summer on the way
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CarolSadler
January 12, 2016
Simply gorgeous, but sad capture! Fantastic shot. Voted in Into the void!
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Bazz
December 12, 2016
Congratulations on winning Fire Photo Challenge for December, 2016! Way to go!
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Sunshine77
September 27, 2017
No better potrayal than the actual! What an image, not to mention that you are capturing a personal experience makes it even more realitive! = "AMAZING"
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jimhelmick
March 25, 2019
Damn wildfires. I have been involved ( as LEO) with a couple in AZ, one set intentionally .
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Steve-n-Ning
April 20, 2019
Great photo. I grew up in the L.A. area and lived in Thousand Oaks, Calif, in the late '70s. I remember driving home on the freeway with the fire burning on both sides and in the median of the freeway. We just just drove through. Crazy place. Thanks for the brilliant photo.
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Behind The Lens
Location
This was taken on the Pacific Coast Highway just north of Malibu, California.Time
It was about 9:00 pm.Lighting
The lighting was very dark except for the glow of the fires. I had to shoot a long exposure to get enough light. My ISO was 400 and my F stop was f/3.5.Equipment
My camera was a Nikon D7000 with my 24-105 kit lens. I didn't have a tripod with me as I was parked on the side of the road in my fire engine waiting for our next assignment. To stabilize the camera I set it on top of a rolled up shirt that was on the front bumper of the fire engine.Inspiration
I was a fire captain at the time of this photo and I decided to bring my camera with me to record anything I saw if I wasn't busy fighting fire. Some of the best shots I could have got I was instead engaged with fighting the fire and couldn't take time to get any images. So I had about 15 minutes down time while waiting for our next assignment. I was able to get this during that time.Editing
At the time the only post processing I had was Aperture which is a step up from iPhoto. It does just basic editing and I was able to bring out the shadows just a bit.In my camera bag
Today I have upgraded to the Nikon D800 and have many lenses, tripods, lights and gadgets. It depends on where I am going, how close I will be to the vehicle or if I am shooting in a studio on what gear I bring along. Back then I had only brought my camera with the one lens and a couple of batteries and cards. And of course some cleaning equipment. :-)Feedback
To capture something like this you almost need to be involved with the fire dept, news organization or just luck to be at the right place. But this can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. Once you got that covered realize that the lighting conditions are not very good so you will need to shoot long exposure which means you will need to stabilize your camera someway. I recommend a tripod but if that isn't available then you need to improvise like I did.
