Abstract smoke

[jtmwood]

Not particularly renowned for shooting abstracts but thought Id turn my hand to it - here are a couple I made earlier.


Smoke-005-Edit by jtmwood, on Flickr


Smoke-021-Edit by jtmwood, on Flickr

[Deano]

Re: Abstract smoke

Nice shots ... I really like this effect.

It's one of the assignments in the book I am reading at the moment so will be giving it a try sometime - I'll be chuffed if I get as good a result as these.

[jtmwood]

Re: Abstract smoke

Thanks Deano its very rewarding I must say Ill be doing it again.

[chodeva]

Re: Abstract smoke

this is really nice. care to share the howto if not too lengthy for you. i would like to give this a bash

[jtmwood]

Re: Abstract smoke

Sure, very easy and straight forward.

Mount the camera on a tripod, the smoke is from an incense stick. Focus on the stick and lock the focusing off. Set the aperture to f8 and use a low ISO.

You need to set the flash off camera with a cord and shoot 90 degrees to the camera, illuminating the smoke. For a background I used an old black coat.

For the white background I simply inverted the colours during PP and boosted the red and blue channels.

HTH.

[paul linton]

Re: Abstract smoke

Great abstracts,love the colours in the darker version.

Thanks for the explanation(think that's how you spell it)great help.

Paul

[DeeGee]

Re: Abstract smoke

Something else to try on rainy day photography. Thanks for sharing.

[Muscat]

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Very efective

[chodeva]

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thanks for the howto.

[Hereford_EOS2]

Re: Abstract smoke

Smoking is bad for your health but great for photography, excellent work.

[jtmwood]

Re: Abstract smoke

Thanks gents hope it helps - thats why I used incense sticks and not cigarette smoke.

[cjf999]

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Nice shots.

[clikklik]

Re: Abstract smoke

Nice shots; there is a very good vid on youtube by "photogavin" on how to get good results with smoke, very straight forward really,the vid is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2d281_HoEQ