Add Mist to Your Photos With One Easy Trick

Creating visually stunning effects in your photography doesn’t have to be expensive. If you haven’t got a studio or your own personal smoke machine, don’t sweat it. Photographer Brooke Shaden lets us in on her secret method for adding mist to photos:

The trick? A bit of elbow grease and a bottle of baby powder go a long way in creating dreamy, misty photographs.

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Squeeze and shake a bottle of baby powder directed behind or in front of your model to create puffs of hazy mist that will capture light.

Shaden captured these images with a 35mm lens, at 1/40 second, f/2.9, ISO 400.

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Baby powder can be used to create mist or cloud-like puffs of smoke for dramatic backdrops.

Let the used baby powder fall on a sheet or directly onto a long, billowing skirt attached to the model.

Shake the fabric to create a more full mist effect.

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Dramatic mist effects are created by shaking a piece of fabric full of baby powder.

It really is that easy!

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