I followed a huge header in the sky today which took me to a wildland prescribed burn in a nearby forest preserve. Firefighters with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County were conducting the burn for several reasons. Depending on the…
Tag: commercial photographer Larry Shapiro explains the process of photographing fire scenes
Sometimes work is just too fun for words … like the times that I ask to have a house set on fire for photos … and I get it! The image here is from several years ago and featured the…
Here is a series of images that represents the aspects of the scene where the Woman’s Club of Wilmette was destroyed by fire this afternoon. I don’t have time for more information as I’m headed to the airport for a road trip. There…
Part of my time spent in Arkansas involved photographing a Rogers Fire Department house burn down at the culmination of company training. Since my focus for the trip involved new apparatus from Rosenbauer, the fire department had one of the new…
A few shots from a winter fire scene in Wheeling (IL) a few years back … the fire started in the van in the driveway and communicated into the mobile home where the family was living.
I’ve mentioned in previous posts that it’s not always possible to have the right lens for every situation with fire scene photography. For some time now, I’ve taken to carrying two cameras at most daytime fire scenes and some night…
Okay … so the headline is a bit sensational … I was at a townhouse fire today in Buffalo Grove (IL) and there wasn’t much to see from the outside. Firefighters made an excellent stop of a fire that communicated…
Here’s a quick shot from a house fire today in Glenview (IL). The house was struck by lightning, and as firefighters were completing the overhaul phase, another round of heavy storms was about to hit the area. This silhouette of a…
We’ve been taught that the viewer’s eye will be drawn to the brightest portion of an image … which promotes the need for an understanding of lighting, composition, and contrast. But what if you have an image that begs to…
Here are a few fire scene photos … no lengthy discussion about the fire or the image creation … just a few images to look at. The captions detail some of the points that are relevant. Talking points are focal…