Abstract smoke photography how-to
Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new — or re-invent old — versions of photography techniques. One of the ones that is going like wild-fire (excuse the pun) around the interwebs at the moment is the art of photographing coloured smoke.
The trend started with the highly talented Graham Jefferey, of Sensitive Light fame, whose phenomenal photographs went around the world via blogs,
We’ve managed to talk to Graham, and find out how he does his smoke photos…
Getting the smoke right
Before anything, Graham points out that there is no ‘right’ way to photograph smoke. His technique has developed over a long period of time, and Graham admits to learning and discovering new things every time he sets out to take the photos.
The two key secrets to smoke photography is inverting the image, and using gray smoke. Say what now? How does that work? Well, Graham explains: “It’s quite a simple technique, really. All you need to concentrate on when you are taking the photos themselves, is getting good images of the smoke. The colours are generated digitally at a later stage.”
To get the best possible smoke to work with, Graham uses simple incense sticks known as Joss sticks, which can be purchased from most Chinese supermarkets and in every Chinatown anywhere in the world. Alternatively, any reasonably large incense stick should do the trick.
Once you’ve got the smoke, the rest is all down to freezing the motion, and getting the lighting right. “In my opinion,” explains Graham, “the key technical factor is to adequately light the smoke so that it stands out from the background.”
While smoke in itself can be an interesting subject matter, Graham points out that in his photos, the smoke itself isn’t the subject matter, it is merely the tool used to create unusual photographs: “I am not trying to create pictures of smoke; I am trying to create pictures by using smoke”. This approach means that you have full creative licence to do what you want to manipulate the smoke as much as necessary — the only thing you have to worry about is getting an impressive final result.
Lighting and exposure
The best way to get ‘cleanly’ lit smoke photos is to use a clean environment with controllable light. A studio would be ideal, but anywhere you can hang up a black background is perfectly usable. The most important thing when photographing smoke is getting enough light to freeze the motion of the smoke in mid-air. You can do this by using a lot of light (think direct sunlight falling through a window) or by using one or more flashes. When you’re photographing the smoke, you’ll want to make sure that no stray light hits the front of your camera lens (this will cause glare or solar-flare type effects), nor on your blackened background (because that will bring out definition in the background, which you don’t want either).
When you are photographing, it is easiest to let the smoke rise on its own volition. Instead of trying to manipulate the incense stick, try wafting some motion into the air to disturb the even plume. Alternatively, you can try to create interesting shapes by making the plume turbulent: try introducing a ruler, an upturned spoon, or a sheet of paper into the plume to alter its shape and ‘feel’.
“I want clean lines and shapes”, Graham explains. To do this, he shoots with a lot of light at a small aperture (and thereby a deeper depth of field). “This is very much easier to do if the smoke is allowed to rise naturally.”
With the smaller aperture needed to capture the plumes of smoke properly, you obviously lose quite a bit of light. This is a problem, because in order to freeze the motion of the constantly-moving smoke, you need quite a fast shutter time. In practical terms, this means 1/250 or faster. Simultaneously, you can’t reduce the ISO value on your camera either, because the purile plumes of smokes would be ruined by significant amounts of noise. Needless to say, a coinciding need of low ISO, small apertures and high apertures means that you need a vast amount of light.
Personally, my best smoke photos were taken with a 2000W Bowen studio flash light with a humongous soft-box fitted on the front. I prefer this solution because the softbox gives even lighting, but it can be difficult to limit where the light goes, so the above-mentioned limitations of “no light on your background or camera lens” can get tricky. I find that if you put the soft box really close to the smoke, you can get excellent results. Having said that, my smoke photos aren’t nearly as good as Graham’s, and he uses a different approach: “For all practical purposes the light used to expose the image comes from one studio flash unit fitted with a snoot and placed at the side or behind the smoke. I realise that not everyone has one of these units, but an off camera flash gun fitted with or placed beside a baffle to protect the background from direct light works just as well.”
If you’re going to be working with external flashes anyway, you probably need to shoot in fully manual mode: Your internal light meter is unlikely to give you a lot of joy on this one. In addition, it’s absolutely vital to get it right. You’ll need to set your flash output and aperture so the brightest part of the smoke is almost completely white, but not quite. Overexposure means that you will lose detail, and the inverted image will have a lot of black in the smoke, which just looks unnatural. Under-exposure, on the other hand, will make it difficult to see the difference between the smoke and the background.
Once you’re taking photos, it’s worth keeping in mind that you need to keep the room well-ventilated. Not because the smoke will harm you (although it probably will, if you breathe in and get enough in your eyes, etc), but, as Graham puts it: “as the air fills up with the fog of dissipated smoke your pictures will be robbed of light, contrast and sharpness” — never mind your health, think of the photos!
Digital manipulation
Now that you’ve captured the photos, it’s time to take it to your digital darkroom. Crop your image to a composition that works for you, and then use levels or curves to adjust the contrast of your photos. You’ll want to make sure that the background is completely black (hold the alt key while adjusting the black-point levels slider in Photoshop, it gives you a preview of what you’re actually doing), so it turns into a pure white when you invert the image.
Once you’re happy with the background, invert your image, and decide if you like the black or white background best — stick with whatever you prefer, but often the white backgrounded images have a lot higher impact. If you have stray smoke, dust, or details in the background you’re unhappy with, use a brush with the same colour as the background (i.e white or black) or clone tool to get rid of them.
To colourise the smoke, use the hue and saturation tool. You can apply the colour to the whole image in one go easily, because your pure white or black background will be unaffected by this tool (if it does make changes, then your background needs some work first). Alternatively, you can colorise part of the image, or use multiple colours, by making a selection of a part of the smoke, and use the ‘feather selection’ command to create a gradient. Using the Hue and Saturation tool now results in colorising parts of the smoke image only. Nifty, yes?
Some inspiration
The best place to go for some inspiration are Graham’s own images, available on his website. My personal favourites are these: -1- -2- -3-.
Apart from Graham, there are quite a few other people who have taken smoke photography under their wing. Myla Kent’s work (also inspired by Graham’s images) is worth a look, and there’s a Flickr group titled Artsmoke which takes the artform to a new level.
The only way you can get further, though, is to have a go yourself… What are you waiting for?
Article in co-operation with Graham Jefferey. All photographs © Graham Jefferey. To see the bigger versions, hit the Sensitive Light Smoke Gallery.
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#1 - January 24th, 2007 at 02:22
That’s nuts. I’ve always been mesmerised by smoke and the interesting forms it can take. This looks like a good indoor winter activity.
#2 - January 24th, 2007 at 02:51
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These are beautiful photos!
I like this new style of longer, in-depth article. It’s really readable and it seems to be getting a lot of exposure.
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Thanks for the great tutorial. It was well written and great with the illustrations. I am certainly going to try this technique out for my next assignment and hope I can get some great results too.
#13 - January 25th, 2007 at 06:35
Pretty Cool! Really Good Job…I always was a lil on the pyro side!! Thank You:-)
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#20 - January 25th, 2007 at 15:16
This tutorial saves me a lot of work. As I published some smoke pictures on flickr.com, I was asked how I did it. Unfortunately I never found the time to write a tutorial … now it’s just a click away. Great work, wonderful pictures. Thank you!
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#23 - January 25th, 2007 at 21:10
Wow, thanks for this article. I just had to try it myself and I am happy with the outcome of my first attempts:
http://spirit.enjoys.it/photos/rauch_059_invert.jpg
http://spirit.enjoys.it/photos/rauch_034_2.jpg
Not really sharp nor great, heh. I just used my compact Powershot A95 ;)
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#32 - January 26th, 2007 at 09:29
Nice. I was just trying this a couple of days ago! My conclusion was that I needed a nice black sheet to hang in the background, because the damn flash lit up the whole room, despite my best efforts to prevent it. I used incense sticks, too — seems like the most practical solution.
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#39 - January 27th, 2007 at 04:44
Thanks. I tried a few shots after reading this article. Interesting results.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstefura/sets/72157594501962735/
#40 - January 27th, 2007 at 11:26
I’ve done some similar things with liquid
http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/archives/56
nice article
cya
#41 - January 27th, 2007 at 14:50
I did it last year…
http://photo.webgriffe.com/index.php?shotID=200
http://photo.webgriffe.com/index.php?shotID=199
Click on the eye-icon on the bottom right side to disable post-its
#42 - January 27th, 2007 at 16:14
I made a few before seeing this article but after reading it I’ve been inspired to improve my technique
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76442934@N00/
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#44 - January 28th, 2007 at 04:50
Great tutorial, I tried it out yesterday night, with off-camera flash, and got some interesting results..
I even got a woman-like figure one of the smoke lines… check it out:
http://www.lumendipity.com/Lumendipity%20Gallery/slides/Smoke-Induced%20Halucination.html
http://www.lumendipity.com/Lumendipity%20Gallery/slides/Abstract2.html
Thanks a lot!
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#49 - January 29th, 2007 at 06:57
you know what when you see some beautiful smoke it’s affect your limbic system.. and make you little bit emotional attachment to it.. ya, i mean to say the smoke hypnotize you.. good job dude
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My go at it: http://alecu-grigore.blogspot.com/2007/01/training-day.html
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#59 - February 1st, 2007 at 23:50
Well, I’ve tried myself, helped by my friend Mauro, and it worked fine.
Feel free to leave your comments… Thank you very much!
http://dalay.ojodigital.net/thumbnails.php?album=36
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#65 - February 6th, 2007 at 20:32
Hi again
I just put some more pictures up on my blog, and referred to this article as well.
http://www.lumendipity.com/blog
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smoking is for dummies.
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#70 - February 23rd, 2007 at 16:36
I used your methods and have ended up with quite a few nice photos. However, in this photo the smoke formed a person, legs and all. It was quite amazing. http://www.shutterpoint.com/Photos-ViewPhoto.cfm?id=460364
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#73 - March 4th, 2007 at 14:38
Good Morning Mr. Kamps,
I altered my smoke story on jpg.com to include your website. I do deeply apologize for the oversight. I loved your interview and I am going to spend lots of time looking into your website, it looks really awesome. (I also loved your article on the lensbaby) Thank you so much and I hope I you are not offended. Suzette Lucas ; )
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#75 - March 27th, 2007 at 18:06
you are absolutely wrong. i can not even believe that you would have that much time to even create a website full of LIES! you must have no life. YOUI PEICE OF SHIT CVM SUCKING TREE FUCKING LITTLE SHIT
#76 - March 27th, 2007 at 18:14
Err… Are you on drugs, A Human? It’s the funniest comment I’ve had on here for a long, long time, though, so it’s staying.
#77 - March 29th, 2007 at 18:33
So, I have updated my flickr with a bunch more, I would love it if you all would check them out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76442934@N00/sets/72157594482411277/
#78 - April 19th, 2007 at 20:37
this is really stupid! not really the article but i really think that the title should be changed! there is nothing good that will ever come from smoking and the title is really gay! 90% of men and 80% of women who suffer from lung cancer got it from smoking. four out of the five leading causes of death is caused by smoking. every 8 seconds someone dies from the use of tobacco. the people who have died or who are dying from it have or had family members standing around their bedsides holding their hands as they watched their loved ones lay there not doing anything with their eyes closed like theyre in a coma. anyone who is for smoking reads this and does not have a change of heart should really think about how they would feel if they were someone who has lost their grandmother, grandfather, 2 aunts, countless friends, and still have to watch their diabetic father who got hepatitis c from just doing his job and having to do chemotherapy already for that (oh and he got it by breaking up a fight in a prison, not by doing anything else), 2 brothers, an uncle who has already had a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery, another uncle who now has cancer, and other people who they are very close to. you should think of me. you should think of your family members and the family members of the ones around you who smoke. oh and i dont know of very many people who would like to look at pictures of smoke anyways.
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#82 - June 8th, 2007 at 03:58
Hi,
I think the images are pretty cool looking.
I would have never guessed they were smoke unless you told me,
Randy
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#87 - July 30th, 2007 at 23:10
The photo of the spoon always makes me think of heroin. I think I need to read less Irvine Welsh :P
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#92 - August 20th, 2007 at 14:14
A really good article. With a lot of patience, great photographies with smoke can be taken.
Good luck and follow the points of view mentioned above.
Examples:
http://www.kerucov.ro/fotografie_foto_cod.php?foto=845
http://www.kerucov.ro/fotografie_foto_cod.php?foto=848
http://www.kerucov.ro/fotografie_foto_cod.php?foto=842
All the best!
K.
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[…] must be made for arts and crafts night - so here are some of my fun with smoke pics. (inspired by this and this post). This is my first try — I guess I have some more incense burning in my […]
#96 - October 1st, 2007 at 14:05
[…] is a great site for a quick tutorial on how to take amazing pictures of smoke. Photocritic.org has the write up. Nothing amateur about it. These picture are amazing, and I wish I had the time and patience to make […]
#97 - October 15th, 2007 at 13:32
Check out this web. site. Contains amateur and professional photos.
All categories. Especially smoke, macro, nature, aviation, any kind.
My user name is flayerlady. Whoever wants to visit my photos are welcome.
Thank you all in advance.
Best regards.
#98 - October 24th, 2007 at 02:23
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#99 - October 26th, 2007 at 03:34
[…] think there is a Flickr group for almost every conceivable photographic concept). Well over at the Photocritic.Org site there is a great tutorial on how these images are created and how to process them in Photoshop […]
#100 - October 26th, 2007 at 19:46
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#101 - November 7th, 2007 at 22:11
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#102 - November 13th, 2007 at 22:20
I have used your information to get started in Smoke Photography. Thanks
I have been doing some work in Smoke Art Photography. If you would like to see what I have done please visit my photo web site: http://sherman571.smugmug.com/
A very interesting subject.
Sherman
#103 - November 21st, 2007 at 20:40
[…] head over to the art smoke group at Flickr or be amazed by the info at the Strobist Blog and also here and a very in depth form […]
#104 - December 8th, 2007 at 06:01
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#105 - December 17th, 2007 at 23:32
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#106 - December 20th, 2007 at 01:37
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#107 - December 27th, 2007 at 15:20
[…] Abstract smoke photography how-to ||| Photocritic blogSmoke photo by Graham Jefferey Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new ? or re-invent old ? versions of photography … […]
#108 - December 28th, 2007 at 15:26
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#109 - January 13th, 2008 at 19:18
i use cigarette smoke, just as long as you remember to actually smoke the cigarette, it lets out quite a thick stream of smoke. light manipulation, such as wafting with a sheet of paper can produce some amazing effects. Plus, cigarettes are much easier to find than joss sticks when you live at least 15 miles away from the nearest chines supermarket.
#110 - February 12th, 2008 at 02:56
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#111 - February 14th, 2008 at 06:08
Someone writes about a great way to take photos of smoke; it’s right there for you to read and learn from.
#112 - April 27th, 2008 at 18:40
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