Video: Fire, smoke and ash of matches: unusual photographs by Stanislav Aristov
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Kindling the fire, we throw away the burnt match without regret - a small piece of wood quickly turned into a curved cooling coal. But these coals conceal a very special form of beauty. In his unusual photographs, Stanislav Aristov is able to reveal the amazing beauty that was born of a brief duet of a match and a flame.
You can admire the ephemeral pictures in the clouds of smoke, you can look at the flames of a fire … but rarely is anyone interested in ash. The Yekaterinburg photographer acts differently, using burning, dying out and burnt out matches. He creates stunning in style and beauty photographic compositions, where the combination of fire, ash and plumes of smoke adds up to a surreal story born of the talent of the photographer.
Unusual photography requires unusual techniques. Working with such an unpredictable object, Stanislav carefully plans how he will shoot the scene: he selects the background, lighting, takes into account the movement of air and, of course, stocks up with burnt matches. He even had to become a kind of "lord of the burning tree" - to learn how to accurately give burning matches the shape that is needed for the composition. But it is especially difficult to control the smoke. As the photographer writes in his blog, some of the miniatures might need a whole wheelbarrow of matches, if not for the possibility of digital processing.
Stanislav Aristov professionally works in the IT field, but most of his free time is passionate about photography. He takes magnificent landscape and architectural photographs, and when inspiration comes he creates new photo miniatures from matches, unusual photographs of which have already become a hallmark of his work (those who love fire will be interested to read about the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan and "live fire" in the photographs of Adilgerey Kusov
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