Incense
Active Assignment Weekly: Something new. So I had a look at lists of techniques. There was one that I'd tried many times and failed (panning) and one I'd never tried (smoke). All the other's I'd done. So I went and bought some incense in a shop that I guess you could call interesting. I put the incense on a plate on the hob, put my black background under and back and secured it with a Ribena bottle on one side and the kettle on the other. I had to have the fan on, which I know is a no-no. My on-camera flash also had to fire, which I know is another no-no, but that's the only way I could get my external flash to fire (I put it in slave mode). So the external flash was on full power. The on-camera flash I put on 1/32 (minimum). I put the light on, put my finger where the smoke was going to be, focused on that, put the focus on manual, lit the incense and took some shots. Processing: Cropped out the top of the hob and my hand. Changed the colour from white to purple in Lightroom by changing it to blue and then changing the hue. I tried to get the background as dark as possible, because it got lit up a little from the on-camera flash. So, here is my first ever attempt at smoke photography using incense.
Incense
Active Assignment Weekly: Something new. So I had a look at lists of techniques. There was one that I'd tried many times and failed (panning) and one I'd never tried (smoke). All the other's I'd done. So I went and bought some incense in a shop that I guess you could call interesting. I put the incense on a plate on the hob, put my black background under and back and secured it with a Ribena bottle on one side and the kettle on the other. I had to have the fan on, which I know is a no-no. My on-camera flash also had to fire, which I know is another no-no, but that's the only way I could get my external flash to fire (I put it in slave mode). So the external flash was on full power. The on-camera flash I put on 1/32 (minimum). I put the light on, put my finger where the smoke was going to be, focused on that, put the focus on manual, lit the incense and took some shots. Processing: Cropped out the top of the hob and my hand. Changed the colour from white to purple in Lightroom by changing it to blue and then changing the hue. I tried to get the background as dark as possible, because it got lit up a little from the on-camera flash. So, here is my first ever attempt at smoke photography using incense.