Tutorial My tutorial to my smoke art images.

[dinners]

Nice Tutorial

Tried this myself a wee while ago using an old desk lamp with a Nikon D50.

Bit grainy but I enjoyed it and hope to get some better ones next time.

Parrot

Long Jump

Insect

Robot

Donnie Darko

 

[ontopofm]

very nice, how did you get them into those shapes?

 

[aliman84]

Thanks for posting this, I might give it a try tomorrow. It looks quite fun, I might even try it with video too

 

[henryf4]

amazing tutorial, thank you so much for sharing your technique with us.

 

[just_dave]

An excellent tutorial! Have just given this a go myself!

Please forgive my stupidity but when you say at the end to adjust the blend please could you explain to me how to do this as I am relatively new to PS (I have CS3 By the way)

Many Thanks

 

[yukiomishima]

amazing stuff

thanks

yukioMishima

 

[CGeezer]

Would like to thank you for the tutorial Matt I have had a couple of attempts but still not got something that makes me 100% happy as yet. Will keep on trying though.

Smoke Trail

Edited Mushroom

 

[nikonuser]

Looks interesting must give it a go
Thanks for sharing
Dave

 

[wrx_dazza]

These are amazing !!! +1 for giving it a go myself, albeit on a budget....
look out for my desklamp / table cloth version coming soon....

thx for sharing

 

[abooth2909]

Excellent tutorial Matt, many thanks!

Set mine up exactly as you recommend, only difference is I am having to use a Ring Flash off camera which does give some flare unless it is just right.

Great photoshop tutorial too!

My best attempt so far...

Will keep practicing!

 

[wingnut]

Thought I best post a reply to all the comments.
Cheers guys for the feedback. Glad you all liked the tutorial.

 

[nikonuser]

Looks really good with some amazing effects must give it a go
Dave

 

[testbloke]

Sorry for the thread revival but just got around to trying this. Again, a huge thanks for the tutorial, I would not have known where to start without it.

A couple of decent ones from the 300+ shots I took on my first try ! (as always this looks easier than it actually is) ...

1

2 - Incense Geanie ?

Thanks for looking, c+c always welcome

 

[mickd300]

Very useful tutorial. Thank you.

 

[CoughlinPhotog.]

I had a go at this, I had tried before with no success but folowing your instructions made it easy. Thanks.

Here is my one of my efforts.

How did you get the smoke to make patterns like that??

 

[PHOTO SNIPER]

sweet ,everyone has a reason to start smoking again

nice work mate defo gonna try this thanks

 

[Dave450]

I've followed this tutorial its amazing!!

Free bump! And thank you for taking the time to do this!!

My best so far.............

 

[nikonuser]

going to try this tomorrow

 

[Matel1z]

many thanx for this tutorial

 

[Sarg0r]

Thanks for this

 

[bensambrook]

These photo's are incredible! I want to do some of this to use for some brochure work, I have a Jessops 360AFD but I don't have a hotshoe cable to get the flash off camera. Think I could just use a tripod for the camera with a timer and fire the flash manually while holding it?

 

[scottishguy]

These photo's are incredible! I want to do some of this to use for some brochure work, I have a Jessops 360AFD but I don't have a hotshoe cable to get the flash off camera. Think I could just use a tripod for the camera with a timer and fire the flash manually while holding it?

That's exactly what I done yesterday. worked out quite well

 

[AdamK]

Great tutorial, Im so trying this.

 

[SteveReeves]

Wow - what a great tutorial - want to have ago at this right now but need black card and sticks! Thank you for the tut.

Off to ebay to find black card!

 

[jxmt018897]

Remember to choose a inscent that smells nice... mine didnt

 

[oldestswinger]

Holy thread revival batman!
Got bored this afternoon and decided to give this a go - first time for everything eh? I toddled off to the local art supply store for a sheet of black mount card and hey presto Here are half a dozen from this afternoon's work

smoke-6 by oldestswinger

smoke-5 by oldestswinger

smoke-4 by oldestswinger

smoke-3 by oldestswinger

smoke-2 by oldestswinger

smoke-1 by oldestswinger, on Flickr

 

[hayley.price]

Heyy when i tried this on manual and auto I had loads of trouble getting it to focus any idears on how to get a betta focus?

 

[Fumario]

Many thanks for the tutorial. I enjoyed a lot taking these photos.
Please excuse my English, it is not my language but I really wanted to say thanks and share a few photographs that I've taken. They didn't go through PS (I'm not used to PS) I've adjusted light in levels & curves menu in Capture Nx

Bye, thanks

 

[cardiff_gareth]

Here is my first attempt at photographing smoke trails. I'll play and upload the others probably tomorrow.

Pentax K5

 

[Karl12347]

Heyy when i tried this on manual and auto I had loads of trouble getting it to focus any idears on how to get a betta focus?

I had similar issues and probably cos you were either too close to the smoke or there was some light spilling onto the black background. I gave up but need to try again soon.

 

[stupar]

Here's a couple I did the other day when the weather was rubbish.
"Rainbow Smoke"

"Mutant Bug"

My technique differs slightly to the OP's tutorial.
I use f16, 1/250th ISO 100
I have the flash set to full power with a snoot on pointing directly at the smoke source.
At 1/250th shutter speed you can shoot the smoke in ambient light as it wont record at that shutter speed thus you don't always need black card.

Hayley - check to make sure you are within your minimum focusing distance. Pre focus on the incense stick then switch your lens to manual focus so it doesn't change during shooting.

 

[cardiff_gareth]

Previous image on black background:

Some others

Blood

Feminine

6 shooter

Tornado

 

[Nikon_Nick]

I had similar issues and probably cos you were either too close to the smoke or there was some light spilling onto the black background. I gave up but need to try again soon.

The way I do this is to put the camera on a tripod, focus on the end of the incense stick, then recompose so that the stick is just out of shot. I use f11 to f16, then make sure the lens/camera is set to manual so that it doesnt try and hunt for focus when you set the camera off.

 

[lethlianian]

Hey just wanted to upload some of my own to get some feedback if thts okay? lol

 

[mission1968]

Here is 1 i done a while ago when i first learned the technique, for you to look over.....

 

[donal]

thank you very much

 

[Molly Swan]

These are amazing. cant wait to try it out. Ill try not to burn house down

 

[vdubster]

Here's my first go at it


Spirit by j.fordham, on Flickr

 

[aktyn87]

another amazing tutorial !! i can't believe that I just discovered that forum, now my house is full of incense smoke !