How to create flame photography with smoke - Photography Tutorial

Smoke photography is something I love doing, today I took a different spin on it and using the simple set up you can see here created some amazing shots.

After opening the photographs in photoshop I cropped them appropriately and used levels to completely darken the background. Ensuring I used the red channel to lighten the flame.

I then lightened the blue channel slightly in curves, and improved the contrast overall as a photo.

Here's one of the original images. 

And heres the results..