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AdamShepherd — Smoke Photography Tutorial 04
Published: 2009-04-20 00:27:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 9302; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 435
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This is the fourth part of my smoke photography tutorial. Please feel free to post your questions and results here.In this part of the tutorial we consider themes to experiment with, and ways of modifying the light.
Index:
Part 1: What you'll need
Part 2: Setting the equipment up
Part 3: Shooting the smoke
Part 4: Themes and modifiers
Part 5: Advanced techniques (Coming soon)
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Comments: 17
Too bad I'm a bit too young to do this... I pight try it one day! Thx! This was helpful! Waiting for 5th!
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This is a really helpful series! Thanks for posting it!
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I'm curious - Instead of making gels for the flash-coloring, could we use Photoshop (or whatever) to throw a gradient over the picture?
And nice tut thus far.
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You most definitely can. I personally suggest using a new layer working as a Hue layer, and seeing how things go from there. Try to make sure that the smoke image is as grey as possible - even consider desaturating it.
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great tutorial, thanks!
but how could one do this...without a external flash?
do you have any suggestions for in camera flash smoke photography?
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You can shoot smoke with in camera flash, and here's how:
You'll need a much wider, fabric background, otherwise it's the same setup.
Put your backdrop in the same position, but angle it at 45 degrees, so it's bouncing the light from your flash off to the side.
You should now be able to take shots, but you'll still suffer from the background being lit (which is the biggest problem with smoke photography). By angling it like this, you're reducing how much of it is lit up but you'll still need to do a fair bit of work on the computer.
You can get some amazing results with in camera flash - best of luck.
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okay, thanks so much!
then should i place a lamp where the flash should be? or do i ignore that step?
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Ignore the lamp; pretty much skip the steps that refer to positioning the lights.
So long as your background is far enough away and at 45 degrees you should have less flashback on the curtain (but you'll still have some unfortunately).
Best of luck - it's really fun setting up and sitting down with some nice tunes.
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thank you!
one last question, sorry - the incense sticks i bought were meant to be used outdoors, but i don't think i could (it's raining and the sunlight would interfere) as long as i air out the room afterwards, it's safe to use inside - correct?
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I don't know about incense sticks that are intended for outdoors, the only ones I've seen that are intended for outside use were about 20 inches long, and they would have been a bad idea indoors.
You're right about the light and rain, that'd cancel out all your good work.
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great tutorial, tonight im gonna do it, jejeje
thank you so much,nice work!!!
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Thanks, hope it turns out well. Let me know how it goes.
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so that's how you colored the smoke.. I was often wondering how.. and here's the answer.
nice tutorial!
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