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Anonymous
How do you predict explosion sizes and prepare to frame them?
>> Anonymous
You don't! :D

Long exposures would look cool
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
You must give an offering to the Gods of Fire. Pluck out your eye and throw it on the pyre. As it crackles and burns, grasp an appropriate ember from the blaze. If the Gods have accepted your offering, you will know which one to grab and your lack of depth perception won't be an issue. Your hand will burn as well--this is unavoidable, so I recommend using your off hand (I.e., if you're right handed, use your left hand). Place the burning Eye of the Fire in your vacated socket.

Now the deal is done and your soul may well be lost, but you will posess for the rest of your days the ability to see the fire's intentions so long as you look through your viewfinder with the Eye of Fire. You should also probably make sure to have a (flame retardant) eyepatch for use when not taking pictures of fire, lest you terrify small children and the infirm.

Alternately, just get a camera with a fast rate of fire and shoot a crapload of frames. Kind of a cheap way of doing it, though, and less reliable.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, use burst with centre-weighted average or partial metering (in shutter priority) to properly expose for the explosion.

Comedy option: Use your flash to freeze the motion.
>> Anonymous
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>>75010

Fuck, I wish I read that "alternatively" before I started the offering.

Embers were easier, but I should've taken a step or two back and cropped later. Lesson learnt I guess.
>> Anonymous
Disregarding the lack of EXIF, can you tell these are scanned film shots?

My scanner is a fairly cheap, old one, quite a bit of dirt and scratches on it.
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Lighter image.
>> Annoyingmouse
>>75010
ac you bastard, you gave him the recipe for the ryte-of-exposure.
The dude clearly wants SIZE (how big is the explosion going to be)
just take it on the safe side and crop of course.. cant be easier than that. Also take care of flying debree.
if there are no fuel connected with the explosion - it will not be very big unless there is a lot of dust involved. where there is too much fuel involved the explosion will also be smaller than you think, the fuel sucks too much oxygen and kills thre fire or something.
bottom line, if you are lucky enough to work with a proffesional (stuntman, not terrorist), just ask because they can predict it fairly precisely.
if you are working with a terrorist, stand really really close to the bomb as they make very un-spectacular explosions.
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Wonky?