Good grief, I of all people should know what i'm doing around fire, but i've never seen a shot of 40% brandy create so much fire.
I've started to play with food photography, and set up a simple shot this evening of flambeeing. I've taken thousands of photos of fire performing in the past few years so know roughly what i'm doing. I didn't bother composing the shot that well and I didn't use a remote, i just wanted to see what light levels are like from burning brandy that's all. Just an experiment really.
Anyway, I took the precaution of holding the match at the end of a pair of scissors and got everything ready. Normally when i flambee thou the pan isn't as hot as it obviously was with no food in it and when the brandy hit the bottom it started to boil instantly. I knew i didn't have long so lit straight away and wow. The fireball hit my cooker hood and glanced the side of my face. No burns, but a few stray hairs got singed!
I really wasn't expecting the flames to be so big, had I known I'd have set up the camera differently and in the shot bellow you'd be able to see the fire surrounding the cooker hood, but oh well! Here's a low quality shot from the shoot
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