Where There’s Smoke…

There’s something quite mesmerising about a fire – but not when it is on a path of destruction!

On the way to work a couple of days ago I came across a fully involved house fire, something I’ve only ever seen once in my life (thankfully).  When I passed the scene the fire crews had not long turned up and even at that stage it was easy to see someone’s life had just been shattered.  Continue reading

Smoke Experiments

Layton came across a video tutorial today – a how to of smoke photography.  We’ve done a couple of experiments with smoke photography before but nothing that really ‘worked’.  This tutorial was a great motivation to give it another go.

Here are a couple of the results.  We were particularly happy with the last one where the smoke billowed in the shape of a skull.  Might have to give it another go to create some elements to use in our composite shots next year.  Gotta love the holidays…time to muck round and try some stuff you don’t normally get the time to try.

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