This type of photo I would say is not typical and a man here would be wearing a suit to protect him, but I guess at the time we said...lets make this quick so we could see his face.
Working with steel seems like it would be really cool, but really dangerous. I can't even imagine how hot it would be standing next to hot steel like that. Shaping metal definitely requires a lot of heat and pressure. It would be really cool to learn more about how to work with steel. It seems like there are so many things that go into something like this.