Smoke Strobist Setup

This is the setup for the smoking shots with 2 SB-26 with snoots (so the light won't enter the lens) and PW, as close as possible to the incense stick, an incense stick and a plate under it so it won't burn anything, in case it falls for some reason, tripod for the camera and a black background (bought at a nearby store for 1,00 Euro), tuns the lights off and keep shooting until the incense burns out, repeat procedure until you can't stand no more the smell of the incense :)

 

Keep the room a little ventilate so it would not have too much smoke or else you do not get much detail and you do not fall over with the smell :)

 

When you photograph this Smokey things they'll turn out kind of a blueish smoke on black background sometimes could be boring and dull after 300 shots of the same thing... but then,

 

on Photoshop, you invert or not the image and use the Hue/Saturation to create colors of the image, also could use lasso tool on certain parts to give different colors to the smoke.

 

Give wings to your imagination on this...

 

Any help give me a line.

 

Enjoy !!!

 

Rui

 

Take a look at the full article on the Lighting Mods blog page.

 

 

This Pictures features in the new movie from the International award producer Dean Omori take a look at the movie here.

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