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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