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…
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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…
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…
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…
I am in Detroit for a few days shooting fire scenes with Steve Redick. After a slow (and very hot) start to the day, we caught a few well-involved dwelling fires after dark. I’ve never been here before but have…
This shot is one of my favorites. It features a 90′, 1971 1000 Series American LaFrance Aero Chief quint from Libertyville, IL. The fire occurred on October 27, 1995 at the Coffee Masters, Inc. facility on Concrete Drive in Lakemoor,…
Here are a few images from a cold winter night when a call was made to the Chicago Fire Department to help out a suburban neighbor with a stubborn fire in a tire warehouse. CFD at O’Hare sent an Oshkosh…
I made a classic error when I arrived at the scene of what would be a 4th Alarm fire in Northlake, IL. What I witnessed upon my arrival is in this first image. I saw this huge fireball partially obscured…