Getting a picture like this doesn't happen by accident. This is the Kecak Fire Dance performed in Bali, Indonesia, and usually it starts in the early evening in very subdued light and the dancers are surrounded by tourists. In order to eliminate that unfortunate background, and to have enough light for hand-holdable photographs, I hired the entire dance group of about 80 people to perform just for my photo tour an hour before sunset. The dance takes placed over the course of about 30 to 45 minutes, and my arrangement with the manager of the dancers was that I could tell him when I wanted the action freeze. Instead of relying on fast shutter speeds to get sharp pictures, which would force the ISO to be high, I felt this was a better solution. I shot this with a 15mm fisheye, and the settings were 1/50, f/3.5, and 400 ISO. The reason the horizon line isn't wildly curved, typical of fisheye lenses, is because I placed that line in the center of the frame.
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