Here’s another example of fire scene photography that produces a dramatic image from a fire at night. Pictured is a fire chief working closely with two firefighters in the bucket of a tower ladder. Smoke and water mist combine with…
Category: Fire scene photography
Fire scene photography isn’t just about smoke and flames. There’s not always going to be big fire and billowing smoke, or firemen covered in soot, or a dramatic rescue. Sometimes you get there and … we’ll it’s just a fire…
The concept of an environmental portrait goes beyond the staged and posed setup. Here’s an example of an environmental portrait of a fire chief while on-scene at a fire. This was not posed or planned. It was an exercise in photojournalism…
This photo from a shopping center fire in Lagrange, IL depicts a fire chief supervising firemen directing a master stream from a tower ladder during the final stages of the fire. There were all manner of lights shining on the…
I took in a small fire this evening in Wheeling (IL). The firefighters made quick work of containing the fire which didn’t leave much for me to photograph except the overall scene. The fire occurred at dusk on a street…
Yesterday’s July 4th holiday was nice and quiet for many in the area where I live … and then a woman decided to shatter the calm by smashing through the entrance of our local grocery store … backwards no less … Fortunately there…
For several years, E-ONE Fire Trucks wanted their calendar to include images of their trucks in action. They were sticklers for detail and the manner in which their product was displayed. As such, they wanted clean, well lit, nicely posed…
In my mind, responsible fire scene photography includes doing your best to catch the action and document the incident. Sometimes those tasks are the same, but many times they are not. We all want to shoot the massive smoke and…
A bit more about fire scene photography in Detroit. First of all, time is often … of the essence. Here is an instance where we spotted the header in the sky minutes before there was a dispatch. Since we had…
More fire scene photography in Detroit as we took in this vacant dwelling fire on Cahalen in the very early morning hours of Wednesday (June 18th). The street was crowded with parked cars which limited my ability to have clear access…