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Candle Smoke
Several months ago our photo club had a monthly theme of candles. My idea was to photograph candle smoke. Most candles don’t give off much smoke!
After recently seeing a u-tube video by Gavin Hoey I decided to give it another try. The key, use incense, and some lighting techniques. Nothing too difficult. This isn’t a composite, I just dug a hole in the candle and put the incense inside.
Manual mode, handheld, 1/200sec, f11, ISO 200 with single strobe.
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Dave