HOW TO with CAMERA & KIT LENS.

A thread for sharing techniques and set ups, also for people to request help for a certain set up using only CAMERA and KIT LENSES (And props if Required)

Can someone please give me some advise on HOW TO take photos of smoke using my CAMERA & KIT LENS (I have got POP-UP FLASH only).

Thank you all in advance,

Chief

check out this thread

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=844143

You could try shining a regular lamp on the smoke and flag it from reaching your background; with enough continuous light you don't need a flash, but using a pop up flash is going to be tough!

Well @ 9:00am (its now 8:40am) im taking a walk to my local store POUNDSTRETCHER, for some props in the form of a desk lamp, roll of foil and a black pillow case.....(Yeah i know what your probably thinking lol)

Post my results shortly

P.S And inscent sticks !

Chief

putz wrote in post #9849402
check out this thread

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=844143

Thanks for the endorsement .

mpistone wrote in post #9851324
You could try shining a regular lamp on the smoke and flag it from reaching your background; with enough continuous light you don't need a flash, but using a pop up flash is going to be tough!

It's pretty tough all around - if you don't use a flash and instead use generic continuous lights, it's going to be very hard to control the spill. That, and you need a LOT of light.

Chief Ton Yan wrote in post #9852799
Well @ 9:00am (its now 8:40am) im taking a walk to my local store POUNDSTRETCHER, for some props in the form of a desk lamp, roll of foil and a black pillow case.....(Yeah i know what your probably thinking lol)

Post my results shortly

P.S And inscent sticks !

Chief

Saw you post in my thread earlier . A couple more tips. If you can fashion a device with tinfoil to push the light away and around to the side of the smoke (think like a periscope) you might have better results than using continuous lights. The very first time i tried to photograph smoke was about a year and a half ago, when I only had my kit lens. I was shooting an incense stick in a room with a lamp to my side, and the black background was a LCD monitor which was turned off.

The only way I could get them to look anything like the ones I posted in my thread was to crank up the midtones and crush the blacks in PP. Because the overhead lighting was very dim I had to shoot at ISO 1600 and push it ~1 or 2 stops. The shots I got were extremely noisy.

So just a note of caution - with what you have, don't be expecting a lot. A basic, inexpensive flash goes a long way.

The Burning Crown,
Thanks for the advise, getting a flash is deffinately on my TO BUY list, i only got a 18-55mm kit lens at the mo, only had my camera a week today. Im overwelhmed to see what can be done with photography and want to do it all at once which i know is impossible. A friend told me it was impossible to shoot water droplets with a flash and i managed it with pop up flash and got a brill result, i suppose what im trying to say is Im tight with my cash (the little bit i have) lol, im more of a wildlife enthusiast and want to get my 300mm lens first then im going to buy a flash. I will have a try at smoke photography at some point today and will post my results, thanks to all for the advise !

Chief