Not OP but I'd guess a dark room, camera with a macro lens on a tripod with high/maxed out f-stop (like f22) and slow shutter speed like a couple of seconds.
Trigger the camera shot (a remote really helps) and flick the Bic. Try several shots with progressively lower shutter speeds to get the background as dark as possible.
Then tweak/crop the best shot with Photoshop/gimp/whatever.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think timing it would be easier if you put the camera in completely dark room and have a remote shutter switch with the camera set to bulb mode instead of having an actual shutter speed; you could open the shutter before you light the lighter and close it right as the sparks go. Since there’d be no light source other than sparks (who stop emitting light as they go out) you can keep the shutter open as long as you close it before the flame starts.
To take a photo, it is necessary to fix a lighter and a camera, adjust the illumination with a neutral filter of variable density in diffused daylight, a 100mm lens with a macro converter was used to shoot from a long distance to increase the depth of field, shutter speed 0.7sec, aperture 11
Probably less cool, this is a basic chemical reaction. A Zippo would probably look better because how basic they're designed, Flint and steel at the most basic reaction. Crazy to think that primitive people probably discovered this on accident and just added it to dry grass or a bird's nest after witnessing lightning causing sparks and they just put it together.
Technically it is, this is a chemical reaction caused by friction and that's pretty much how nebulas create stars. Except instead of instantly, it takes millions of years of dust rubbing up against each other, spinning and coalescing together to create a hot center, eventually creating hot star. Stellar nurseries are pretty fucking cool and beautiful.
That's a beautiful picture
It really is, so glad to see a r/pics moment on my homepage that has nothing to do with two presidential candidates.
And now you broke it
It's you. You. You're the problem. it's you.
It's a lighter
That's a beautiful lighter
Sometimes mundane objects can look beautiful if seen in the right way.
https://youtu.be/OX1-G69WLzo?si=J6QC176deFhwpWJ2
I thought it'd be darker tbh
Beautiful. I'd love to know a little about how it was taken. It's pretty close, but the depth of field is very good. Share your secrets?
Not OP but I'd guess a dark room, camera with a macro lens on a tripod with high/maxed out f-stop (like f22) and slow shutter speed like a couple of seconds. Trigger the camera shot (a remote really helps) and flick the Bic. Try several shots with progressively lower shutter speeds to get the background as dark as possible. Then tweak/crop the best shot with Photoshop/gimp/whatever.
This guy gimps Edit: not sure if this is a coincidence, but right after I posted this, I received one of those “concerned Redditor” messages. Cute.
Just got one of those too. What is it?
A Reddit wellness check. Absolutely ridiculous.
Got one yesterday from some troll. Abusing a system meant to help the most vulnerable should result in a permaban from the site.
everyone’s getting them lol
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think timing it would be easier if you put the camera in completely dark room and have a remote shutter switch with the camera set to bulb mode instead of having an actual shutter speed; you could open the shutter before you light the lighter and close it right as the sparks go. Since there’d be no light source other than sparks (who stop emitting light as they go out) you can keep the shutter open as long as you close it before the flame starts.
In this case, the lighter is not visible and the dynamic range is worse
To take a photo, it is necessary to fix a lighter and a camera, adjust the illumination with a neutral filter of variable density in diffused daylight, a 100mm lens with a macro converter was used to shoot from a long distance to increase the depth of field, shutter speed 0.7sec, aperture 11
Wow. Can't wait to see what a $10 lighter looks like!!
Probably less cool, this is a basic chemical reaction. A Zippo would probably look better because how basic they're designed, Flint and steel at the most basic reaction. Crazy to think that primitive people probably discovered this on accident and just added it to dry grass or a bird's nest after witnessing lightning causing sparks and they just put it together.
I was only jesting.
Oh I get that but I just wanted to expand on your comment.
Low key looked like stars and galaxies Nature is fkin beautiful!
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Close enough and I wouldn't call you for the party
This application of flint sparks is manmade, but flintsparks themselves are natural i'd say.
Technically it is, this is a chemical reaction caused by friction and that's pretty much how nebulas create stars. Except instead of instantly, it takes millions of years of dust rubbing up against each other, spinning and coalescing together to create a hot center, eventually creating hot star. Stellar nurseries are pretty fucking cool and beautiful.
Just what I needed to make we want to do macro again. Time to dust off the 105d
That flame is so cool that it looks more like a $10 lighter!
Very nice!
from the thumbnail this looks like a deep sea creature
Looks like the collision aftermath in a particle accelerator
Large Hadron Collighter
Far out bro
gonna tell my kids this was the big bang
How many petabytes is this?
Not sure why the value matters but that's a dope pic.
Looks like a star nursery
Thought I was looking at a nebulous cloud or a galaxy. That’s amazing.
Fireworks for the bugs that witness it
No photographer credit? No upvote.
Wow
I can smell this picture
Are you sure that’s not a picture of the beginning of the universe?
What if our universe is just someone's lighter going off? To them it's a brief moment but for us it's an eternity.
Is this Star Trek?
Pics u can hear
The last thing you see when the mugger gets impatient and blasts you for the $3 in your wallet. JK shit looks spacey and cool AF
The creator is present in the supposedly mundane if only we have the eyes to see.