Fire is Art


 
Jose Suro

Jose Suro

TVWBB All-Star
Hi All,

Tonight was all about fire. No lights, no flash, just fire light. Fire creates its own art and long exposures really make it sing. Long exposures going on 10 seconds or so. Except for the plated shot, I used the lights for that!

Cooked on the SJS. Simple 8-oz. fresh ground Sirloin burgers and fries meal :). A couple of mods. Watching videos of people making paella in Spain, when they formed the meatballs they oiled their hands with olive oil first. I tried it and this works for forming burgers like you wouldn't believe! I also only cooked them to just 124 degrees F tonight. Delicious!!

If you look at the plated shot closely you will notice that I can slice my onions thinner than the pickles :). I love my knives!

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All the best!

Jose
 
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That's a good looking burger and amazing photos to boot! You might want to look into this photography thing. You Might make a couple bucks at it! :p
 
Beautiful burger and photos, Jose. The fire and sparks from the chimney are similar to those of sparklers on the Fourth of July. Do you do post-processing on your photos? I really like the one of the burgers with the flames coming up. Looks like you had good control of the exposure on both the top and bottom of the burger. Great work. Delicious-looking burger and fries.
 
You didn't toast yer buns? Great cook, great photos, lump charcoal makes for a good show
 
As it seems to always be, I find myself just staring at your photos! Then I realize there's great looking food in some or the images. You definitely have a gift Jose, thanks for sharing it with us.
Tim
 
Cliff Bartlett said:
Very lovely, Jose. What tripod are you using? What would you recommend?
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I use Gitzo tripods, carbon fiber, very light and very expensive, especially when you include the cost of the Arca Swiss ball mount and all the bracket systems.

I tried using less expensive tripods but finally bit the bullet and paid the piper. These tripods are very light and very strong so they take a lot of weight. They are a blessing when carrying 40 pounds of camera and gear through the woods!

All that said, if you are not going to make a living with a tripod and you're not going to carry it far then any tripod that will "honestly" hold at least twice the weight that you're going to put on it will work. If the tripod can't hold the weight it will vibrate and ruin the pictures. For less expensive tripods I recommend Slik tripods in the $75~$150 price range for light dslr cameras and shorter lenses. They sell a ton of those at Amazon. Try to get one with three leg sections, not four. Four makes the sections too thin and there's more knobs to play with, best leave that to the professional carbon fiber tripods.

I still own one of these and use it on occasion when around the house:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002EXF38/tvwb-20

And this is my lightweight Gitzo setup (earlier version), I have a larger one for using long lenses:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00IQ2S4FM/tvwb-20

And the Ball Head:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0049RMMJ2/tvwb-20

Best,
Jose
 
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