I picked up a small fog machine this weekend. I saw an example of usefulness in photography recently and just had to get one. Most likely it will help me add mood to my Lego scenes.

The setup was fairly straight forward, but required some dialing in. I have a D40 and an SB-600 flash. So in order to fire the flash off camera, I either need to use my SC-29 which is similar to Adorama Off-Camera iTTL Coiled Flash Cord (3-Ft Max) for Nikon Cameras. For this setup though, I went with my slave trigger that fires when it detects another flash firing. I was able to put this on a short tripod off to the side behind the fog machine.

I used the flash compensation on my camera’s built in flash to lower how much it fired. I brought it down to -3 and set my SB-600 to manual, 1/32. Then by adding a red gel from a Halloween strobe over the front of the flash, I was able to get a good balance of white flash on camera and red fog back lighting.

Go to flickr for the annotated setup by clicking on the photo.