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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

The Ethereal Beauty Of Smoke

Tonight I had a migrane! Which is bloody typical given that I'd been counting the hours down all day so I could finish work and get into the studio. I've been watching some photography videos on You Tube during my lunch hour and as always, it inspired me to have a go myself so this evening, once the pain of the migrane had reached a tolerable level, I had another crack at smoke photography (possibly not a good idea to use 'crack' and 'smoke' in the same sentence!).

 So below are the fruits of my labour. I've got it almost perfect now and if you fancy having a go then let me know and I'll run through how I do it.

 Tomorrow is challenge night and I'm really struggling!






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6 comments:

  1. imac28 August 2012 at 23:06

    Fantastic Richard, my favs are 1-4, an air of mystery about them.

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    1. Unknown29 August 2012 at 08:53

      Thanks Stewart, I'm leaning towards 4 and 5 myself.

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  2. Unknown29 August 2012 at 00:23

    I see chain smoking Woodbines has it's uses then!

    Be interested to know how to do it. I see that black card, a tripod and a slow shutter are all essential ingredients.

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    1. Unknown29 August 2012 at 08:57

      Lol, Woody Woodbine they call me.

      The way I do it is a bit different. I have a black background, yes, but my shutter is set to 1/250th to sync with my flash and I didn't use a tripod this time which I found much better because I could hunt for the best bits of the plume. The hardest thing about this is trying not to let light get onto the background!

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  3. imac29 August 2012 at 09:27

    I like no 1 for its Ghostly effect.

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  4. This Is My Blog - fishing guy29 August 2012 at 15:45

    Rich: Smokey post, very cool.

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