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The FUN bomb, that is!
My daughter gave me this desk top paper weight many years ago and I had always envisioned doing something like this with it. After contemplating it forever, I finally got around to executing my plan.
I knew the exposure would be tricky. I didn’t want the flame to be over exposed, and I wanted the “f” to be well lit but the rest to be dark yet recognizable. I placed it on a piece of yoga mat and illuminated the “f” with an LED camping lantern. Taken in a sunroom with plenty of natural (overcast) light in M exposure mode set for the desired effect.
The flame and smoke are real (not AI generated) which also produced the warm reflection on top of the “bomb.” I used a match head propped on top of the steel cable fuse and took the shot as soon as the match head lit using a BBQ lighter. The only AI used was to remove a very small spot where the match head was visible.
Setting this up and taking the shot sure lit my F-bomb!
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Pertinent Technical Details
EOS 6RII on tripod with my home brew L-bracket
EF100 F2.8 USM Macro
f/16 @ 1/13, ISO 5000
Processed in LRC