Smoke Photographs

In my mind I wanted to play Maggot Brain by Funkadelic as the soundtrack for this video. I decided to not put it in as I didnt want to limit anyone's expirience *and* that song is over 10 minutes long...

This is a study in controlling light, composition and color while photographing smoke in the dark.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Smoke
• photography

[obinkwmalmsteen]

tih is a real smoke? or After Effect?

[apixelintime]

@obinkwmalmsteen

The smoke is real. the shots that verge to color, the color is added in post.

[apixelintime]

Thank you for you r comment. This was my first ever attempt at this and I did not feel that I was in a place for making a tutorial. I think I googled "smoke photography tutorial" and read about this for like an hour from multiple sources. I will say that I am glad that I didnt make one - as I shot all of these at f22 it I recall correctly. Doing this again, I would likely take some at f8 and some others at f2.8 just to see which were better.

[parenadhyaru]

how did u mange to make it so colorful?

[apixelintime]

@parenadhyaru

I did a color overlay in photoshop. I know I used blending modes, but dont remember specifically. It is easy enough to try this out and switch that around to see which you like better.

[apixelintime]

Ano one care to comment?

[tnwellian]

why do i have photoshop brushes that are 99% of all the smoke shots i just saw?

[toontownlover1124]

Hey guys... I found this really cool website. Go to google and search Flame Painter. I forgot the website name... but it's really neat.

[aneciik1]

@obinkwmalmsteen czy ty na kwasie jesteś?

[davcnslt]

Fast shutter speed, a black background and black side board placed 90 degrees to the right of camera, an on-board flash, with a blinder on the right. Then play. It's fun. Also try a mister with different color flash filters. You should be able to get good prismatic spectral light in the water droplets.

[MrLoneminstrel]

It`s just like a torch on 2:05

[8RMini]

I so wanna do something like this but sadly i dont... can you plase tell me on how can i do this, i will apriciate it (: