Tag: fire
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Tutorial: Flares and Fake Scars
For the final part of this tutorial series, we turn to the sexy but scarred leg of my filthy assistant (look it up) being lit by a road flare. You’ve obviously seen the video, the tutorial on fire breathing and the one on hairspray burning. This is the end of the road, I’m not going…
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Tutorial: Making a Huge FireBall
By now you’ve watched the video of me burning stuff but you really want more info right? So here it is, the lighting and photoshop how-to of making a huge fireball from cornflour. This is the photo we’re going to create. Firstly, obviously you need a willing model. The more attractive and sexually charged the…
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Tutorial: Painting With Fire Video
I get asked all the time to show how I make fire pictures. Well thanks to the amazing directorial and camera skills of my lovely wife, I here present a brief look at fire blowing, throwing, and spinning. We use road flares, steel / wire wool, magnesium, hairspray and corn flour. Epic is probably the…
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Tutorial: Neighing in the rain (white balance)
It’s all about the crop or It’s all about the temperature I posted the below picture last week. I was very unhappy with it at the time but I couldn’t work out how to make it better. Thanks to May‘s version of the image, I now know what I was doing wrong. The above picture…
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Slinging Fire in the Fog
The above photo is not mine. It was taken by May Wong. She kindly allowed me to showcase it here, I’ll explain why in a mo. Here’s her Facebook page. For a while now Eric and I have talked about teaching a light painting class, and while nothing has come of it, we have used…
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Burning Smores
I know websites are supposed to show your successes and achievements but I thought I should be more honest than that, and show the failures too. This is Deanna (my ever patient wife / model) wearing a latex horses head – what do you mean you don’t own one? Everyone should own one! – setting…
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Anonymous Spin
We’re always setting fire to things here at ScaresMe. Here’s some tutorials so you too can see your insurance premiums spike. Making an Olympic ring. Painting with fire. Selecting the right color. Stupidly dangerous. Car torching. More car torching.