Smoke Photography

[ishamy]

Had a wee shot at burning stuff tonight, very addictive! Pretty cool what you can do with a match, flash and a black box.


Dancing Angel by M+M Morrison, on Flickr


Purple Wisps by M+M Morrison, on Flickr


Flames! by M+M Morrison, on Flickr


Green Smoke by M+M Morrison, on Flickr


Violet Snake by M+M Morrison, on Flickr


Pink Overload by M+M Morrison, on Flickr

 

[ishamy]

Ahh Balls Thanks for the comments and yes I do understand about the watermark, reasoning being I had an issue with a few people printing off my images a few months ago. In fact one person admitted she had one on her mantle piece :O anyway I think I will have to rethink the water mark... Thanks for all the comments should give it a try, so much fun burning stuff!

 

[ishamy]

I did the colour in PP, tried in shot but wasn't really getting anything I liked. I was burning matches which gave off some nice blues mixed with white/grey smoke which really helped give a two tone in PP. I just changed the white balance in Lightroom.

Will look at moving/changing my watermark tonight, I had slightly changed it from my 2012 one and you are all right, it is far to prominent.

 

[ishamy]

You already have positive comments so you know the photos are decent

Decent?! I think you mean 'Awesome' (Joking of course) Yes you are right, but I think I shall try something else with it maybe tonight, make it a bit easier on the eyes haha.

 

[ishamy]

Thanks for that post Kasanti, very good point's in that. I have changed the watermark to being at the bottom of the shot and more opaque, anyway will have a good read again and see what's what (ahh the watermark only updated in Flickr)

Thanks guys!

 

[ishamy]

Shots updated

 

[ishamy]

Hi thanks for the comment and glad you like. Well setup was pretty simple, black background, matches, lighter, flash and remote trigger for the flash.

basically light the match with the lighter, blow it out and take the shot with the flash firing from camera right behind the smoke pointing slightly towards camera. Keep shooting until you get what you want, in PP you can change white balance to anything you would like to suite the colours you want

If you check out Digital Revs youtube channels there's a 'how to' on there, as well as loads of other (that's if you can put up with the style of their videos )