Shooting Smoke.

[eL eSs Vee]

I'd been considering doing this for a while.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb171/MrNewportCustom/Smoke1DSC_1473.jpg
Confusion

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb171/MrNewportCustom/Smoke2DSC_1456.jpg
Double Trouble

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb171/MrNewportCustom/Smoke3DSC_1508.jpg
All Seeing

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb171/MrNewportCustom/Smoke4DSC_1492.jpg
Wraparound

I thought I knew what to expect, but imagine my surprise at seeing what seem to be individual smoke particles (see image three).


Thank you.
Comments welcome.

[clemensphoto's]

These are pretty cool shots. The third one you could almost see a small animal's head. What did you use for lighting?

[pyry]

Very cool! The second looks the best to me, the simplicity of the shapes makes it :D

What did you use for backgrounds and light?

[Shootin1st]

Very cool indeed. Like the little bit of color in #1, but #2 makes it easier to imagine it's a flower :-)

:thumb

[black mamba]

Hi Lee,

Man, these are fantastic. That third one is truly captivating. Some really, really good stuff here.

Tom

[eL eSs Vee]

Thank you everyone, for your very kind comments.

Clemensphoto: That's why I titled it as I did. I distinctly saw a head with an eye, nose and forehead. By allowing my eyes and imagination to wander I could almost see a body, too.

Clemensphoto and Pyry: I used one strobe with barndoors at about 10:00 o'clock (the smoke kept drifting into it), and black foamcore for the background. The color was added using curves in PhotoShop, although I think the prominent blue came from the TV, which was just to the left and behind the foamcore. (I had some cartoons on. :D)