Smoke Sculpture – Home

Tonight I thought I’d do something completely different.  I’ve taken loads of landscape shots lately and felt like a change.  Just over a year ago I saw someone produce some great smoke sculptures and I thought I’d give it a go.  Basically you set up a black background, fire a flash up into the air and in front of the flash light some incense.

You then start taking pictures of the backlit incense smoke.  When you have a few images you pull them all into photoshop and create a picture from lots of “interesting” shapes.  You can really go wild and make anything you want.  For my first attempt I thought I’d try a sea horse (the shapes I was pulling in helped).

When you’re done, you can add a color cast using photoshop blend modes. It’s actually a lot of fun and I’ll definitely do it again and I guess the beauty of this is every time you do it you get a completely unique image.

I appreciate that this is completely fake and a composited image, but you need a camera to do this so I class this as photography.

Anyway here is my first attempt.

I think the Halo guys are getting board, we left them in the kitchen and came back to find them “playing” with utensils!