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 02/08/2007 12:34:52 AM · #1
I had fun shooting smoke for the first time, so threw one of them into the free study. I had two shots and two variations of each to choose from.

I realize that abstract shots depend highly on personal taste, but I'm curious to know what folks think and whether there's anything objective at all that I could use in the future.

Here's my entry. It did fine in the scoring.


Here was my primary alternative, putting it in white:


And here's the other set of variants, which were much more abstract:


Questions:
1) Do you like the recognizable shape or the abstract more?
2) Black or white?
3) Is there anything objective to any of them, or is it all just taste?

Thanks!
 02/08/2007 12:57:12 AM · #2
from the first set

from the second

I have never shot smoke but I like these best :)

The purple one on black is nice but it leaves little to the imagination IMO... the white one made me think more about the thinner parts of a flower and the fragility... (from the thumbs, I thought I liked the black one more) :)

The rainbow coloured ones are more interesting but not as clear as the purple ones... the white rainbow one hid more of the "unclearness" and so it was a little more pleasing (for me) to look at.
 02/08/2007 03:49:40 AM · #3
I like the one with the rainbow colours on black the best. (How did you get those colours?) I don't like the tip of the incense showing in the image.
 02/08/2007 04:40:22 AM · #4
very cool. the rainbow colored smoke on the white background reminds me of a the photoshop feather.
 02/08/2007 04:51:01 AM · #5
i like the purple on white most, but agree with Greetmir 'bout the incense.
The rainbow coloured shots are not sharp enough IMO, try a smaller aperture, I used f/8.0 in this shot.

02/08/2007 10:50:31 AM · #6
Originally posted by Greetmir:
I like the one with the rainbow colours on black the best. (How did you get those colours?) I don't like the tip of the incense showing in the image.


The smoke is gray. In Photoshop, I created a new layer and set the blending mode to color, then in that layer:
1) Selected some random area with the lasso
2) Feathered the selection so the color will fade instead of creating a hard line
3) Filled the selection with some color

Repeated until it looked nice.
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