Capturing Smoke
Smoke can create some unique wispy movement and you can capture this with your camera to create funky art.
There are two methods that can be used when capturing smoky movement with your camera.
- With a table lamp, flash gun (off camera), black background, incense stick and your camera.
- With one or two powerful table lamps, black background, incense stick and your camera.
Method 1
You will need a way of firing a flash gun off camera, this may be via a sync cable, wireless trigger or an optical trigger. You will also need a black background around 3-4 times bigger than your setup or a way of controlling the ambient light around you. A few incense sticks, lighter or matches and a table lamp.
The Setup 
My setup included a black sheet draped over my curtains, a table lamp, flash gun fired with CTR-301P’s and an incense stick.
The table lamp lights up the smoke enough for your camera’s auto focus to pick it up. When your ready with the shot and press the shutter, the flash illuminates the smoke to give you that lovely wispy movement.
I used my Sony A200 with a 28mm lens at f9-15 and switched between auto and manual focus.
Method 2
For this method to work you will need a gap of around 6 feet from the background and incense stick. This should help maintain the pure black background. One of the lamps should be positioned on the side as in method 1 and the other lamp should be positioned slightly behind the incense stick at a slight angle. Be careful that the second lamp does not cause flare on your lens.
You will notice slight flare in these two, it will have to be Photoshoped out.
After a bit of Photoshop and tidying up, you should be able to create something like this.
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Win 7 Guardian
What fun I have had today with this lovely program. It silently installs itself onto your PC from infected web sites or can be attached to some legit software. It takes over parts of the Windows system and pretty much stops you doing anything to remove it.
My AVG picked it up and tackled it and after a fashion removed it, however it had left some damage.
In an effort to stop you trying to remove it it deletes the .exe association within Windows so your unable to run pretty much any or all applications.
There are a whole load of ways online to get rid of it if your AV does not pick it up but this link hosts a simple registry fix to re-associate your .exe files as applications.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html
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365 Picture 22
I’ve had a few emails asking how I did my first picture like this one, what kit I used and if I would post a video of the setup and process. I decided to give the video ago and once Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker starts behaving I will post it. Here is the resulting picture.
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365 Pictures 19 – 21
Been busy at work this week so here are three more entries into my 365
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The Digital Economy Bill, what’s yours is ours
The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which – unless amended, which HMG says it will not – will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
Read the full story HERE
Sign the No.10 Petition HERE
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365 Pictures 1 – 5
Here we go, 1 to 5. Like I have said these are a little back dated to get going but apart from the Bentley wheel and car pictures all were taken this year.
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