2000 degrees!

When liquefied rock comes shooting or pouring out of the earth red in

color it's temperature is reaching nearly 2,200 °F (1,200 °C). The type of

thing you may want to shoot with a long lens. Here was my attempt with

the Canon 14mmL2! I was sure to ask friends Tom Kualii and Bruce

Omori (Hawaii's premier lava photographers) if it could be done, Tom

replied “go for it!”

What you don’t see here is that I only had about 2-3 seconds to get in

and get the shot before I nearly burst into flames! (Go to my FaceBook

page to see that photo!) I ran in, immediately took 3 auto - bracketed

shots (+ and - 2 stops) and then ran out as fast as possible, feeling as if

my shirt was on fire. The soles of my feet literally smoked and my tripod

burned my right arm. After getting something similar to a sunburn I

finished. Canon, Irvine (CA) appreciated that I had to send my camera in

to get it working again.

More Hawaii shots are in my Hawaii Gallery on my website:

WildForLight.com

Techie stuff:

Canon 5D Mark2

Canon 14mmL2

f/7.1

Shutter 1.6 seconds and 0.4 seconds

100 ISO

A 2 shot blend using my innovative "blend if" techniques for tonal control

and blending (more info about that on my website).

Processed (unusually) in Srgb so that I would not have color shifts in the

reds for web (the Fuji Flex print file will be developed in Adobe RGB

1998)

As always, most accurately viewed on a calibrated desktop monitor, via

a color managed browser such as Safari, Firefox or Chrome.

Thanks for looking!

now that's one hot shot! I don't know if it is worth wrecking a camera over, but it is an incredible shot!

WOW! Hate to see you risk your life, but this shot is amazing! I have never seen anything like it.

Spectacular!