In the first part of this tutorial on smoke photographs, I taught you how to take the actual photographs. Hopefully you’ve gone out and had some fun capturing some easy and beautiful smoke images. Now I’ll show you how to take those images to the next level and really make them pop. Let’s get to it.

The first tutorial to be featured on the Sublime Light is on how to photograph smoke photographs. Photos of smoke are amazingly beautiful, extremely easy to take, and can really take on some interesting shapes. Everyone who looks at a smoke picture sees something different, which is one of the best parts. Where one person will see an angel, another will see a demon. This is a great way to get creative with photography without a lot of equipment commitment.

I’ll show you step by step how to photograph smoke, then how to process the pictures using Photoshop to really make them stand out. So enough already, let’s get started!