"Last year, I was thinking about the most fire epic shoot I could do. After several days of reflection, I drew a quick draft. The idea was to make, not a wall or a ground of fire that I have already seen, but something that merges both… A sea of fire with, in the middle, a kind of Moses, that slips the sea in two parts.
After testing and finding the right fire/pyro effect, I built a team including fire security men, a model and assistants.
First, I looked for a background for the scene and the right framing. I used a 24mm F2.8 Canon lens and Canon 6D. Two speedlights are used to light the model. The first one is an octobox on the left side and the second one is on the back right, as a rim light. Both of them had CTO gels to correctly balance the color compared to the fire light. The shoot was done in two different exposures and merged in post-production, because the model is not exposed enough by the fire itself." -Frederic Amadu
EXIF:
The fire sea and background: Bulb mode, ISO 50, F22
The model: 1/160 ISO 400 F8.0 and speedlights