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08/20/2006 03:38:24 PM · #1 |
Been playing around taking pictures of smoke
Great fun, pretty difficult too
Here's 7 of the best IMHO
Comments most welcome
      
Steve
Message edited by author 2006-08-20 15:38:54. |
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08/20/2006 04:15:23 PM · #2 |
| I think the last one is great. looks like a wheel in the middle. How did you do it? did you color in post processing? |
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08/20/2006 04:28:52 PM · #3 |
| What was the source of the smoke? Cig? |
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08/20/2006 04:30:11 PM · #4 |
It looks like incence smoke to me. Great shots.
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08/20/2006 04:38:43 PM · #5 |
The smoke was from an incense or joss stick
lit from the side by a angle poise (basically just to see the smoke and try to manually focus...which was the hardest bit)
Since I can't mount my flash off camera I had to angle the flash to the side and bounce it off a reflector.
Black velvet some distance behind (draped over radiator)
Post processing was fairly simple, levels, brightness, contrast
Colouring was done by hue/saturation adjustment layer using "colorize" (which is wrongly spelled by Adobe, I've written to them but they ignore me...)
Making the white backgrounds or inverting the picture is done by simply swopping the black and white "handles" under the Output Levels information in the Levels adjustment layer.
Like I said, focussing way by far the most difficult part
Enjoyable wee project though If i didn't have a killer image for the free study one of these might have made it in....
Steve |
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08/20/2006 05:17:35 PM · #6 |
errm ... okay than :-)
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