Danse Macabre
I tried to shoot a few interesting pictures of smoke trails with a stick of incense. I'm not entirely happy with the results, I'll reshoot later.
Lessons learned:
- Using a snoot or flagging the flash is important to reduce a noisy background to pure black.
- Use a reflector to balance the light.
- Experiment more with colour gels.
- Use a flexible flash/lightstand instead of manual holding and pointing.
- Open a few windows.
- Incense burns up relatively fast, time is critical.
Danse Macabre
I tried to shoot a few interesting pictures of smoke trails with a stick of incense. I'm not entirely happy with the results, I'll reshoot later.
Lessons learned:
- Using a snoot or flagging the flash is important to reduce a noisy background to pure black.
- Use a reflector to balance the light.
- Experiment more with colour gels.
- Use a flexible flash/lightstand instead of manual holding and pointing.
- Open a few windows.
- Incense burns up relatively fast, time is critical.