Earlier this week I announced that I was embarking on a photo series of smoke trails. I wasn’t sure where it would take me, but I knew that I had just barely tapped the surface of my potential in exploring this type of photography. I also knew that if I just continued to try it [...]
Project Smoke: The Series Continues (D141)
You’d think that photographing the same subject for days on end would get boring or old, but as it stands right now, I’m more excited about photographing smoke trails now than I was when I started. The reason is that there are so many variables that can be introduced and manipulated… it keeps it fresh [...]
Leaving a Trail of Smoke… Smoke Trails Series Part 2 (D140)
I’m continuing the series of photographing smoke trails which I started yesterday. I really want to see how focusing on a series, even if just for a week or a few days, will improve my craft and the art of the capture. Here are a few of my new favorite shots without the post-processing inversion [...]
Learning to Photograph Smoke Trails—A Photo Series & Tutorial (D139)
That’s right. I’ve decided to do a series of daily photographs capturing smoke trails. It’s a challenge in lighting, set up, creativity and focus. In addition, there is an element of the capture that you can’t control: the smoke trail. So I’m setting out over the next few days to see what I can learn [...]
D42: Up In Smoke
Do your dreams ever feel like that? Like they’re going up in smoke? Like you’ve lost what you worked so hard to achieve? As so many continue to struggle in this economy trying to make ends meet, the creative artist sometimes has to change plans mid-stream, not unlike the smoke trails from a blown out [...]






