Create Smoke Effects in Your Photos with a Clever Light Painting Technique

We've previously discussed lightpainting?the use of slow shutter photography to create amazing light effects?but there's much more you can do if you expand your toolkit beyond a simple flashlight. Photographer Wen-Ji? Yang utilized a strobe flash and neon tubing to create floating snowflakes and smoke.

As demonstrated in the video above, all you need is a dark room and a few kinds of lights. You can see how Wen-Ji? created the smoke by moving around the neon tubing in desired motion patterns. The result is hard to believe it came from only light and wasn't photoshopped. While he used a lot of specific materials, creating these effects on your own in your own way doesn't require too much effort. If you want to make some really interesting images, follow Wen-Ji?'s instructions and give it a shot.

Light Painting Tutorial SMOKE | Wen-Ji? Yang on YouTube via DIY Photography

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/XjurAU07jng/create-smoke-effects-in-your-photos-with-a-clever-light-painting-technique

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