{"id":49563,"date":"2015-04-30T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=49563"},"modified":"2015-04-30T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:36:48","slug":"photographer-designs-craziest-photo-ever-taken-with-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/photographer-designs-craziest-photo-ever-taken-with-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer designs ‘craziest photo ever taken with a smartphone’"},"content":{"rendered":"\"01_Huawei_P8_FireAngel<\/a>\n

Though he’s used to shooting with high-end cameras like a Mamiya Leaf Credo 80 (currently \u00a325,156 on Calumet if you fancy it<\/a>) for this project Benjamin Von Wong had just the Huawei P8 smartphone.<\/p>\n

For a P8 promotional campaign, he was tasked with creating a shot that demonstrated what the phone could do, using fire and its light-painting functionality, and without engaging in any post-processing in Photoshop or similar software.<\/p>\n

What resulted was the selection of images on this page, making a claim to the lofty title of ‘craziest smartphone phot in history’.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Benjamin reviewing the creation of the image on his smartphone screen. Photo by Sean Sim<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The effects were achieved with a combination of ND filters and the P8’s multiple exposure stacking functionality, as well as some pyrotechnic work from a professional team.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Some of the behind-the-scenes work on the ‘Fire Angel’ image, top<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

As Benjamin recalls in his post on Medium<\/a>, ‘Lighting for the set was carefully designed to make the pillars and backdrop stand out without hitting our model. Light spills during a long exposure, would mean that our gorgeous model would come out looking blurry.<\/p>\n\t\t

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The pyrotechnics at work mid-shoot. Image by Sean Sim<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

‘To light the model without blur, a single tightly controlled Broncolor flash boomed overhead contained within barndoors were used which were manually triggered by hand.’<\/p>\n\t\t

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A grid showing some alternative takes of the final ‘Fire Rain’ image (see the final below). All photos \u00a9 Benjamin Von Wong<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t

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A series of takes of the Fire Angel Image. All \u00a9 Benjamin Von Wong<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

From there it was a matter of co-ordinating the pyrotechnics, which is probably even less simple than it sounds.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video for the campaign, which shows the image capturing process in more detail:<\/p>\n