Blowing steam effect

A wide shot where jets fire from several pipes along a platform. a wide shot of a long industrial platform at night where three pipes along its length release hard narrow jets of white steam sideways at different heights, each jet holding a tight column before breaking into cloud, the clouds meeting in the middle of the frame and rolling upward together, a figure walking beneath them untouched, locked camera

A wide tiled room where a slow plume climbs through hard light. a wide shot of a tiled bath house where a slow thick plume of steam rises from the surface of the water and climbs through two hard shafts of light from high windows, the plume bending and folding as it passes each shaft so its shape is fully readable, the dry tiles at the near edge of frame staying sharp and clear, very slow push in

Visible breath leaves a person in bursts while the air holds otherwise clear. a person standing in a freezing concrete stairwell breathing out slowly toward camera, each breath leaving as a visible warm cloud that expands, slows and disappears within a second, the gaps between breaths completely clear so the effect belongs to them and not to the room, hard cold light from a high window edging the cloud, locked camera

A steam jet splits around a hand held into it and rejoins behind. a narrow jet of white steam crossing frame from a small brass nozzle, a hand entering and holding flat in the middle of the jet so the steam splits around the fingers, runs along the back of the hand and rejoins into one column a short way behind it, the split closing as the hand withdraws, the dark background dry and still throughout, slow push in

A tight column of steam leaves a pipe and breaks into cloud further out. a heavy iron pipe valve on a workshop wall releasing a narrow jet of white steam sideways across the cold room, the jet holding a tight straight column for half a metre with visible pressure before it breaks up into a wide soft cloud that rolls upward, the dark brick behind it and the tools on the bench staying perfectly dry and still, locked camera

A slow wisp becomes a sudden hard burst of steam from a spout. a metal kettle on a hob in a plain kitchen giving off a thin wisp from its spout, the wisp then cutting loose into a hard fast burst of steam that shoots forward a full arm length and rebounds off the tiled wall in front of it, the burst falling back to a wisp again, the window behind unfogged and the room still, locked camera

A wide shot where a sudden burst fills half a hall then falls away. a wide shot of an empty machine hall where a floor unit suddenly releases a hard burst of white steam that fills the right half of the frame within a second, the burst then falling away and thinning until the hall is clear again and the unit is left hissing a thin wisp, the left half of the hall never touched by it, locked camera

Steam lifts slowly from a hot flat surface and bends in the room air. a hot flat griddle in a dim kitchen with water just poured onto it, a slow thick plume of steam lifting straight off the surface and then bending sideways where the room air moves it, the plume thinning as it climbs and catching a hard side light so the shape of every roll is readable, the cold pans beside it giving off nothing, locked camera

A wide shot where breath shows on one runner and not the other. a wide shot of two people running along an icy path side by side, the nearer runner breathing out hard so a visible warm cloud leaves the mouth with every stride and trails back past the shoulder, the second runner producing nothing at all so the contrast is immediate, low winter sun lighting the clouds bright, camera tracking alongside

Ground-level steam pours from a grate and rolls across the floor. a person standing over a metal floor grate in a dim service corridor, thick white steam pouring up through the slots around their ankles, part of it rolling low across the floor like a liquid and part of it climbing past their knees and thinning out, the air above their shoulders staying completely clear, a low backlight making the steam bright, locked camera