I bought some sparklers back on the Fourth of July to try this. It's trickier than I thought, me and Brian made about a dozen attempts at angel wings to find that sometimes the sparklers sputter out or the shutter closes when you've got one wing and a halo.
Or that you didn't step far enough back after hitting the timer on the camera, so half the angel is out of frame.
It turns out, too, that the angel wings, to work, involve a bit of risk and a lot of trust. The person shows up a bit if the sparkler is directly beside and to the front of you, which means the painter gets the fire awfully close in your peripheral vision.
And it means a few hot cinders might, say, fall in your hair or on your shirt. These were wood-stemmed sparklers which the chick at the fireworks stand told me would be safer for this, but I wonder if the old-fashioned wire based ones mightn't be for close-but-not-touching.
If you don't have a partner in crime, you can still make people, bicycles, a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch...
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