Tried some smoke photography today, at the risk of burning the house down. Candles are rubbish for this kind of photography, so don't use them. Incense sticks are apparently the best, but if you don't have them then we've got to improvise. Presenting the humble cotton bud. This effect was achieved with about 4 cotton buds lit both ends, talk about your rear being on fire.
I had fun doing this. You can google and you'll get loads of tips on how to do this. It's best done with a black background. So I propped Santhosh's black t-shirt on a a laptop bag, so that it could stand on it's own, lit the cotton buds, laid them on a metal plate and clicked away. Have your flash on when clicking the photographs. If you want to come up with this effect you have to post process a bit. I used lightroom. Darken the background, tint the photograph and you can have any colour smoke you want.
Btw, what do you think this looks like?
Neat! Genie outta a bottle?
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