Laser & Flashlight BEAMSHOTS

Had this weird idea, so since I don't have a fog machine or any way to produce some sort of fog, I thought of closing off my bathroom, burning a facial tissue (burns quite slowly if it's just sparked, not blazed) and use the smoke from that to bring out the laser beams.

I wore 3 sets of glasses at once (My prescriptions, laser glasses, and general sealed off safety goggles to seal my eyes out from the smoke... it will burn your eyes if you're in for too long without them!) and a mask, kinda feel like I overdid it because it was just a tissue, but I guess you can never be so sure :p My bathroom was the perfect place to do this because it's a small sealed off room with a powered ventilation system, and I burned the tissue in the sink so if anything flame related happened I have immediate access to water.

Turned out pretty good, this was my first experience with using heavily polluted air to bring out beams. I've used air polluted with sand dust before to try to bring out laser beams, but it was nothing like this.

I took a flashlight in with me as a light source because the vent system turns on when the light does, but it turned out to be quite an amazing sight, I had forgot that the flashlight I have has a collimated beam.




Flashlight on laser tripod



The sparkling white beam was really nice to see, and unlike the laser beam shots it's quite... diluted? Hard to think of a description for it.

Laser 303


303 on laser tripod


Room illuminated by flashlight, beam still quite visible

Others

From left to right: 800mW 520nm, 500mW 445nm, 2.9W 445nm


800mW of 520nm


Sanwu Pocket series, 500mW of 445nm

Please feel free to post your best beam shots, I'd love to take a look!

-E.P.