10 Tips on How to Photograph Smoke and Fog

[@hdrsmit]

nice one quick point for those who only have access to speedlights...in a studio setting you can always mount 2-3 speedlights together and shoot them at lower settings to freeze smoke trails just as sharply as you can with a MUCH more expensive studio strobe and still get enuff depth of field (DOF)

[@jennygw1883]

Great video, concise and lots of good info, thank you

[@slrlounge]

+Jenny FTOL You're welcome! We hope you enjoyed it!

[@jennygw1883]

+SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials much better than that JP guy lol :)

[@jennygw1883]

+SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials would appreciate advice on small fog machines and liquids if you get a chance, please :)

[@jackreckitt5162]

Have you tried lighting a candle, blowing it out and re lighting it with a match above the candle that travels down the smoke to re light the candle and do you have a photo of it?

[@slrlounge]

That we haven't yet, good idea to try out when you are shooting =)

[@HaleyIvers]

I'm having trouble trying to get this down... I was wondering what camera settings you had when shooting the smoke? Thank you!

[@slrlounge]

+Haley Ivers Have you had a chance to look at the full workshop? We teach you how to shoot smoke in those videos

[@HaleyIvers]

SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials No I haven't!

[@mrscillalatte]

Love this thank you for sharing!

[@robertfousch2703]

5:50 - easily fixed, Levels clip the black end by a few points...problem solved.

[@JeffO-]

Very nice. I haven't found that smoke moves all that fast. For water drops for example, you really need to use 16th or 32nd of a second on manual with the flash. When shooting cigar smoke without wind, I didn't find any problems using a much higher power. I put the cigar on a grill in the garage, put the flash on top of a car to the side and shot out into the darkness at night. A camera, a lens and a flash with a built-in slave on manual with a flash on the camera (on manual) pointed to the side to trigger it. No tripod, flash trigger or studio strobe needed.

[@slrlounge]

Yeah, the thing is with smoke that even with slower flash durations it still looks "ok" since the smoke travels in a line and kinda wisps up. But, you don't get the same detail you would when its a faster flash duration. It's almost like getting a little bit of that water/shutter drag type effect. Still looks cool, just different.

[@JeffO-]

SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials I'll have to look at it more closely and do some more stuff with it.

[@theladysamantha193]

Where is the tutorial for the fine art smoke photography? I can't seem to find it. Thanks!

[@slrlounge]

Hi Samantha, To purchase the smoke effects pack: www.slrlounge.com/store-product/smoke-texture-photoshop/ For video tutorials using these effects: www.slrlounge.com/premium

[@KianKrashesky]

Did you just use matches for the smoke?

[@hasyy220491]

Hi. Can you please gimme the settings for canon eos 650d for this smoke function. Please .. Thank you

[@JamesTheGiantPanda]

I'm shooting a football pre game, through-the-bleachers, walk this Fri. can you help? I have a hand me down Fugifilm bridge with 11FPS continuous shutter

[@JamesTheGiantPanda]

sorry, there's a light facing the camera, with a fog machine in front of the camera (towards the players)

[@BMcEntire1967]

I am always amazed at the instructions on shooting great photos and they use $8K in gear well above the average user...

[@slrlounge]

The point was to get ultra high resolution smoke textures for the Smoke Texture Pack for SLR Lounge users to use. So yes, we use super high quality gear to make the best quality product we can. But, the education on how it is done can be done with any gear you like.

[@BMcEntire1967]

SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials I completely understand, just an observation of relating with the average user... Still a very great tutorial :)

[@UltraseuropeCom]

Hello, great tips! We think that smoke looks just amazing on photos. Maybe you need some some bombs? we can send it to you ;) Best greetings Ultras-Europe team

[@davidmidnight8937]

I love how you talk X'D

[@eurossocial]

Great information and Helpful video. But you didn't speak about how to shoot outdoor FOG. ;-) Thanks for the video.

[@skipad4306]

4:44 add smoke in post. so much of a photographer. rethink that. from now on use photoshoper. ill stop here the vid. bye

[@gpt246]

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