Smoke and Champagne

Recently in class we saw something and wanted to get a bit of practice in lighting, and it seemed like a really interesting thing to have a go at. Rim Lighting, which is basically where you light a subject but only see their outline, nothing else.

We decided to use a Champagne bottle and a glass filled with red water, once we got the hang of it out came the smoke machine to see if we could give it more of an effect. It worked but not really as well as I'd hoped.

(Left) With the smoke machine. I quite like the blue effect we get on the back ground but wanted it to be a bit more 'mysterious'

(Right) Without the smoke machine.

Then we moved onto lighting incense sticks, using a flash light and testing different coloured gels and making patterns, faces or flowers with the smoke. Learnt quite a few techniques to this and it came out really good, this has to be the one thing I'm really impressed with and proud of doing.