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would definitely like to more about how you lit them. So, here's how I did it.
Used a black cloth background a few feet behind where I placing the burner. I used a normal, everyday incense stick in its holder and lit it. My flash was off-camera using a hama hot-shoe adapter and cable and placed about 2 feet away from the stick at a 45 degree angle with a piece of black card shielding it from the lens, and it was set on manual mode at 1/16th. The camera was set on a tripod about 3 feet from the stick, pointing towards the black background. I placed the tip of the stick in shot and focused on it and then reframed so it was out of shot. Settings for the camera were iso 400, shutter 1/100 and f11. I had all the surrounding lights in the room off except for my maglite so I could at least see vaguely where the smoke was going, and used my remote release to fire off the shots.
Smoke is a completely random thing and as such the shots vary in quality. I usually fire off a couple, wait a few minutes for the smoke to disipate and repeat. I also learnt from my first attempt that the further back the background the better the results as there was no disturbance from the flash. I also found out that I have a small draft in the kitchen as the smoke last night wanted to leave the burner at right angles, so I may build a windbreak for my next attempts.
I hope this helps those who wanted the info. Give it a try and see what you think.
Cheers
Used a black cloth background a few feet behind where I placing the burner. I used a normal, everyday incense stick in its holder and lit it. My flash was off-camera using a hama hot-shoe adapter and cable and placed about 2 feet away from the stick at a 45 degree angle with a piece of black card shielding it from the lens, and it was set on manual mode at 1/16th. The camera was set on a tripod about 3 feet from the stick, pointing towards the black background. I placed the tip of the stick in shot and focused on it and then reframed so it was out of shot. Settings for the camera were iso 400, shutter 1/100 and f11. I had all the surrounding lights in the room off except for my maglite so I could at least see vaguely where the smoke was going, and used my remote release to fire off the shots.
Smoke is a completely random thing and as such the shots vary in quality. I usually fire off a couple, wait a few minutes for the smoke to disipate and repeat. I also learnt from my first attempt that the further back the background the better the results as there was no disturbance from the flash. I also found out that I have a small draft in the kitchen as the smoke last night wanted to leave the burner at right angles, so I may build a windbreak for my next attempts.
I hope this helps those who wanted the info. Give it a try and see what you think.
Cheers
JuSlaughter said:
So, here's how I did it.
Used a black cloth background a few feet behind where I placing the burner. I used a normal, everyday incense stick in its holder and lit it. My flash was off-camera using a hama hot-shoe adapter and cable and placed about 2 feet away from the stick at a 45 degree angle with a piece of black card shielding it from the lens, and it was set on manual mode at 1/16th. The camera was set on a tripod about 3 feet from the stick, pointing towards the black background. I placed the tip of the stick in shot and focused on it and then reframed so it was out of shot. Settings for the camera were iso 400, shutter 1/100 and f11. I had all the surrounding lights in the room off except for my maglite so I could at least see vaguely where the smoke was going, and used my remote release to fire off the shots.
Smoke is a completely random thing and as such the shots vary in quality. I usually fire off a couple, wait a few minutes for the smoke to disipate and repeat. I also learnt from my first attempt that the further back the background the better the results as there was no disturbance from the flash. I also found out that I have a small draft in the kitchen as the smoke last night wanted to leave the burner at right angles, so I may build a windbreak for my next attempts.
I hope this helps those who wanted the info. Give it a try and see what you think.
Cheers
Used a black cloth background a few feet behind where I placing the burner. I used a normal, everyday incense stick in its holder and lit it. My flash was off-camera using a hama hot-shoe adapter and cable and placed about 2 feet away from the stick at a 45 degree angle with a piece of black card shielding it from the lens, and it was set on manual mode at 1/16th. The camera was set on a tripod about 3 feet from the stick, pointing towards the black background. I placed the tip of the stick in shot and focused on it and then reframed so it was out of shot. Settings for the camera were iso 400, shutter 1/100 and f11. I had all the surrounding lights in the room off except for my maglite so I could at least see vaguely where the smoke was going, and used my remote release to fire off the shots.
Smoke is a completely random thing and as such the shots vary in quality. I usually fire off a couple, wait a few minutes for the smoke to disipate and repeat. I also learnt from my first attempt that the further back the background the better the results as there was no disturbance from the flash. I also found out that I have a small draft in the kitchen as the smoke last night wanted to leave the burner at right angles, so I may build a windbreak for my next attempts.
I hope this helps those who wanted the info. Give it a try and see what you think.
Cheers
Thanks for the tutorial, i think i will be tryng these sometime soon.
Excellent - thanks for the tutorial. Have been wondering about these ever since I saw this guy's portfolio: http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folde
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