Despite nursing a dodgy knee injury, I managed to drag myself out to an Apocalypse themed photoshoot with a bunch of friends and models all from around the Lincolnshre and Nottinghamshire counties. Amongst all the buildings in this derelict colliery building is a dark and grimy area which I knew would be suitable for a spot of daytime lightpainting.
This is what happens when you ask a model to hold on to two smoke pellets and wave her arms from top to bottom:
For these shots, I placed a gelled flashgun at the back of the frame and a single flashgun on the camera's right. I would have used a softbox on the right hand flashgun but only half an hour earlier I had managed to break my Roundflash softbox....
This was shot with the same lighting arrangement except in Lee filter gel "primary red"
As the smoke dissipates you can use the opaque nature of the smoke left over to create something more like a cinematic effect:
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