[Recovered Thread: 70209]

[fairy_basslet]

Walking into work this morning, I saw that someone had not put out their cigarette completely in the ashtray outside, so I tried to capture the smoke wafting from it. Total failure. :? Any suggestions? Would you need an open aperature? What kind of shutter speed? Maybe I needed a black background?

[hgernhardtjr]

Lit from the side as much as possible and dark background has worked well for me. Thin, almost ethereal cigarette smoke is tough to capture!

[VTphotog]

A little fill flash often works well with the right background.

brian

[woyteg]

Hi there.

Here is my way.
The picture you can see was taken with my flash gun directed straight up, reduced power to 1/16 and I put a white board just above it to reflect the light.
Of course dark backround helped a lot.

I hope it helped.