Tom Lacoste Fire Photography

Homer

23 year old French, self taught photographer.. Oh and he's colour blind too!!











more info and pics here...

SolvableKnave

Holy sweet mother. That is some astonishing work there. From the linked article Photo's 1,7, and 14 would be personal favourites.

pete4130

I'm not overly impressed with it really. It's silhouettes & light painting with fire, albeit with good control of the fire rather than outstanding photography. You have to ask yourself are you more impressed with what is going on with the light/flames or the photography? There are a couple of interesting images.

Every photographer is self taught when you think about it.

magicbastarder

yeah, would tend to agree - very impressive technical achievement, in the same way steve vai is an impressively technical guitarist.

swingking

pete4130 wrote: »

I'm not overly impressed with it really. It's silhouettes & light painting with fire, albeit with good control of the fire rather than outstanding photography. You have to ask yourself are you more impressed with what is going on with the light/flames or the photography? There are a couple of interesting images.

Every photographer is self taught when you think about it.

I don't know about you but I would find that fire hard to expose for to make that there is enough detail. Plus I reckon there are elements of flash used.

I am very impressed with this

Homer

Ah like everything in life it's all subjective I guess! I liked it and thought i'd share that's all

Placebo

im not sure how much exposure control is involved, any bad shots can be passed off as experimental !?

speaking of impressive: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/conserving-africas-wildlife-through-photography

Balfey1972

Thanks for the post Homer.
Like you i like it also.

Something to think about for my next light painting outing.
Think i might need a bigger fire extinguisher just in case!!