Get started with creative smoke photography
Photographer and writer Marcus is a former editor of Digital Camera
Smoke photography is a challenging but rewarding way to spend some time shooting indoors. It’s also a great way to familiarise yourself with a few photography basics: you’ll learn how to set your camera and flashgun manually, as well as how to fine-tune your shots when you process and edit them. It’s amazing the shapes and forms that a few curls and licks of smoke can take on with a simple crop and a rotation – free your mind, and soon you’ll be spotting faces, aliens, dinosaurs and (possibly) cowboys…
An incense stick gives you a slim and relatively manageable plume
