Flaming Pumpkin Festival – Year Three
Welcome the the Third Annual Flaming Pumpkin Festival! It’s always nice to end Halloween with a nice flaming pumpkin…. or pumpkins.
My favorite shot of the night is the one above. He was a very small pumpkin with a very large mouth. Buy prints of him HERE. Makes a great gift!
I added one element to the photography this year. I had a wireless flash positioned to the right of the camera with an orange gel to keep the color nice and warm. I didn’t use it on every shot – see right. I also had a continuous light behind the jack-o-lanterns gelled blue to illuminate the smoke.
The pumpkins are filled with flammable materials and sprayed with generous portions of lighter fluid. – Don’t try this at home.
Year Two
Here’s last year’s victims! More pictures in this post: prestonpro.com/photoblog/2010/11/08/flaming-pumpkin-festival
Year One
My first ever flaming pumpkin. I loved this guy, he was HUGE. Here’s a multi-exposure shot from before the burning: prestonpro.com/photoblog/2010/01/09/great-pumpkin
Flaming Pumpkin Festival
Welcome to The Second Annual Flaming Pumpkin Festival! Above are the before shots of “Stinky Pete” and “Scarface”. They both enjoyed long and fruitful lives before being burnt to a slightly charred medium well. They were carved on Halloween Eve and lasted three glorious nights before entertaining us with flames shooting out of their eyes and mouths.
Click on the smaller images to see full size.
Pumpkin Patch
The day before Halloween we took Connor out for his first visit to a pumpkin patch. He was just a few days shy of two months old. The sun just setting and the light was about as perfect as I could ever hope for. See more pictures from the trip at my other blog.
The Great Pumpkin
The Great Pumpking was picked out at Beringer Farms for Halloween last year. It was gigantic. This shot is a composite of two separate exposures, hand aligned and blended in photoshop. See the rest of the shots and subsequent burning here.
