Fake Smoke with Flashlight and String – Photography Tutorial

25 Responses to Fake Smoke with Flashlight and String – Photography Tutorial

1. Rich Maher says:

   April 28, 2011 at 7:27 pm

   Cool! Thanks.
2. Tormento says:

   April 29, 2011 at 6:00 am

   Coo. man, thank you.
3. Theblues1102 says:

   April 29, 2011 at 7:47 am

   Thanks a lot.

   I’m waiting for your new creative.
4. George says:

   May 1, 2011 at 11:21 am

   nicely done and well-explained!
5. Tri Le says:

   May 1, 2011 at 7:22 pm

   fantastic. Thanks a lot.
6. waldi says:

   May 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm

   mal wieder ein guter artikel…mir gefällt dein schreibstil!!! Weiter so!
7. laura says:

   May 5, 2011 at 5:06 am

   thanks, amazin – once again your creativity is fantastic, and thanks for being so free to share how you create your photos!
8. ArenaCreative says:

   May 5, 2011 at 9:45 am

   That’s really cool! Who would have thought you could actually use string to create smoke in a photograph…

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10. Zakintosh says:

    July 21, 2011 at 3:59 am

    Important question: Is your book only in the e-book format or are there other versions (pdf, for example) available? I am on a Macintosh and cannot read ebook formats on this machine I think.
11. PhotoExtremist says:

    July 21, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    Hey Zak, it is in PDF format. You should be able to read this on macs, pcs, and even mobile devices.
12. Julian K. says:

    July 27, 2011 at 5:14 am

    Thanks Evan for the great tip… its been most helpful and inspiring to me. As soon as I saw your video I wanted to try it and while watching I already knew what I had to use to do this…

    Check out my trial in flickr:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/juli_kanini/5978855531/in/photostream/lightbox/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/juli_kanini/5978858543/in/photostream/lightbox/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/juli_kanini/5978861665/in/photostream/lightbox/

    Looking fwd to all your other tips!!!
13. Jesus says:

    August 7, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    No mention of what kind of lens you are using..?
    Does it matter..?
14. cristian canessa says:

    September 17, 2011 at 6:04 am

    hi great tut, and well explain but a still have some doubts; how do you colorize the smoke, in photoshop? but how?
    thx’s and keep doing your great job!!!
    bye
15. PhotoExtremist says:

    September 17, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    What are your doubts? You can color the smoke by creating a new layer on top of the smoke layer, and then grabbing the gradient tool, making a gradient on the new layer, and then set the blending mode to Hue or Color on the layer.
16. Elena says:

    October 27, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    Great! Thank you for the nice tutorial!
17. Lichtspur.ch says:

    December 3, 2011 at 8:17 am

    Cool idea! Thanks for the tutorial! With this technique I managed to take this “shot”! 🙂
    http://www.lichtspur.ch/view.php?pic=Cowboy_50201_f
18. mukti says:

    June 20, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    cool evans !!!!
19. ramon says:

    July 16, 2012 at 11:06 am

    Last Friday I tried to do the same. Maybe the result is not the same but it was fantastic to try it. thank you.
20. Trick Photography Examples says:

    October 31, 2012 at 1:08 am

    Where do you get all of your ideas from? Are you just that creative a person?

    Never in a million years would I have thought of trying to make string look like smoke, but I guess that’s why you’re selling a cool product and I’m just trying to take cool pictures 😉

    Jerry

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23. ANA says:

    May 10, 2013 at 3:26 am

    which is the speed of the camera?
24. Yessimar says:

    May 10, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    Porfa deberías subtitular tus vídeos, esta increíble este truco, ya lo pondré en practica, gracias!
25. marina says:

    May 11, 2013 at 7:56 am

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