Smoke gets in your eyes, right? Well, if it's coming out of a factory chimney nowadays (under current EPA regulations) it shouldn't be smoke, it should be water vapor. Which brings us to the subject of my midterm project: a factory smokestack emitting smoke. To accomplish this, I have been studying smokestacks and how the smoke emitted from them looks – it's quite different than that created in the tutorial I did for a volcano. Much thinner, much more whispy, much puffier – like clouds actually (which are also made of water vapor). I'm starting to set up my scene and experiment with settings to see how easy or hard it will be to get the right look. Of course, I'm going to have to get video of a non-smoking smokestack for the project and who knows how that will affect things once I bring everything into After Effects for compositing. As of right now, I'm shooting for light, white, puffy, and easily diffused. We'll see how it turns out...stay tuned.
Trying to find out how to contact you - would appreciate permission to use your photograph Smoke: ANM302 – Week 7 to illustrate pollution in my university PhD poster and power point talk.
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