DIY: Fireballs - Special Effects for your photos

Here is a great video that shows you how you can make a Fireball in simple steps.

You can use them on your sets to create some great SFX effects.


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Enjoy and do not get burned!

Share some photos with us on the Lighting Mods Flickr Group and tag them Fireball.


5 comments:

Unknown said...

I am completely clueless as to why that isn't burning his hands.

Anybody got an explanation?

GeoWulf said...

The answer is in this digg reply .

Basically there is more that you need to know than just soaking a ball of tighly-bound cotton and lighting it on fire.

Anonymous said...

hello to everybody!

if you consider trying this out, please make sure you do it outside, or at least in an environment with no carpet an no furniture the ball colud run under.

mine fell down lots of times, cause it ain´t that easy to hold it like shown in the video. and a ball likes to roll around.^^

although i thought i am kinda trained in handling firy things, i burned my hand a bit.

better go outside.
better use fireproof gloves.
dont make the ball too big, the smaller the less dangerous.

keep a fireextinguisher, or a bucket of water in near range.

Anonymous said...

Theory - the lighter fluid evaporates, rises up, meets the live flame and burns; so long as you don't actually touch the flame, you don't get burnt.

Practice? Don't know, I don't have enough faith in the science to try this out!

aJohnston said...

Argh video no longer hosted :-/

Alex Johnston
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