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SPHFerrari
03-10-2007, 03:06 PM
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
03-10-2007, 03:18 PM
Very cool, what was your lighting setup on this?
EDIT: I prefer the 2nd one, but theyre both cool.
SPHFerrari
03-10-2007, 03:19 PM
light coming in through a window. very low-tech :)
Cotterik
03-10-2007, 03:47 PM
quick and effective :) I have a desktop of similar effect.
drakkie
03-11-2007, 03:48 AM
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
03-11-2007, 09:17 AM
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
03-12-2007, 12:04 PM
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
03-12-2007, 12:52 PM
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
03-12-2007, 01:44 PM
simple aesthetic value :)
SPHFerrari
03-12-2007, 05:57 PM
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
03-12-2007, 05:58 PM
btw, green?
Cotterik
03-12-2007, 06:00 PM
yeah, works too. B+W is most effective though. Gives a silky silver effect.
drakkie
03-13-2007, 07:42 AM
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
03-13-2007, 07:56 AM
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
03-13-2007, 08:28 AM
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...!
Sledgehammer
03-28-2007, 09:21 PM
some cool smoke pictures that I found. Its a little late but I think the way which these were took was rather neat.
Similar photo to the one above but higer res.
Cotterik
03-29-2007, 01:10 AM
its the same as spensers but with a match and a blue filter.
zeppelin
03-29-2007, 03:58 PM
And it's not inverted.
I really like those shots Spencer, I may have to steal your idea for some experimenting.
SPHFerrari
03-29-2007, 04:09 PM
some more smoke. dont ask me whats going on here.
my porsche
03-29-2007, 06:09 PM
whats going on there? besides the pot-smoking.
The_Canuck
03-29-2007, 07:00 PM
some more smoke. dont ask me whats going on here.
Those are some oddly scary pics man.
Cotterik
03-30-2007, 05:49 AM
lol yeah at first when he showed me i thought it was a scarecrow with a face made of cotton wool :p
zingermann
04-05-2007, 04:50 PM
i like the 1st one a lot, good job..