Smoke

[SPHFerrari]

Just playing around with this the other day. Obviously, i cant enter them in the competitions but i wanted to share. I inverted them and on the first one selected a portion of the smoke and flipped it to get the mirror effect.

[my porsche]

Very cool, what was your lighting setup on this?

EDIT: I prefer the 2nd one, but theyre both cool.

[SPHFerrari]

light coming in through a window. very low-tech

[Cotterik]

quick and effective I have a desktop of similar effect.

[drakkie]

I've attempted a few shots of my own with smoke, but I wasnt very effective. You just lit an sigarette and took the picture against a white background/sheet of paper ?

[SPHFerrari]

i took the pics against a really dark background so the smoke appeared white and then inverted the colors, pulled the saturation in the first, and increased the contrast. it wasnt really set up with a background it was just in my friends room. the lighting/background worked out rpetty well though.

[drakkie]

i took the pics against a really dark background so the smoke appeared white and then inverted the colors, pulled the saturation in the first, and increased the contrast. it wasnt really set up with a background it was just in my friends room. the lighting/background worked out rpetty well though.

I got some inspiration today. The idea is to take a picture of a cigarette left on the ground to burn. Maybe take it from street level with a almost partly blurred background of a street with pedestrians... Sounds quite complicated, but I hope you get the idea. I might give it a go soon, so do you have any tips/ideas/suggestions ?

[my porsche]

sounds like an interesting concept, but what would the point be? pictures have to have a point, it would make a good anti-smoking ad picture maybe?

[Cotterik]

simple aesthetic value

[SPHFerrari]

I got some inspiration today. The idea is to take a picture of a cigarette left on the ground to burn. Maybe take it from street level with a almost partly blurred background of a street with pedestrians... Sounds quite complicated, but I hope you get the idea. I might give it a go soon, so do you have any tips/ideas/suggestions ?

sounds like an interesting idea. it would add some intrigue if the cigarette was barely smoked, not sure if thats what u meant. i may play with this idea. if i can find a friend who wants to waste most of a cigarette for me.

[SPHFerrari]

btw, green?

[Cotterik]

yeah, works too. B+W is most effective though. Gives a silky silver effect.

[drakkie]

sounds like an interesting idea. it would add some intrigue if the cigarette was barely smoked, not sure if thats what u meant. i may play with this idea. if i can find a friend who wants to waste most of a cigarette for me.

Yea, half smoked perhaps... Might play with a small bend in it... I'm gonna buy some proper white paper today

[SPHFerrari]

yea thatd be good with a bend in it, or even half broken. also, the way i picture me shooting it in my head is with a shallow DOF and then feet running away in the background. something to play with. itll be interesting if we both try this idea to see the differences in interpretation.

[drakkie]

yea thatd be good with a bend in it, or even half broken. also, the way i picture me shooting it in my head is with a shallow DOF and then feet running away in the background. something to play with. itll be interesting if we both try this idea to see the differences in interpretation.

Yea ! Will get some friends to pose for me with the walking in the weekend...!