What can I say.. smoke photography is quite addictive. Using the ‘mirroring’ technique, I’ve created the below images, and this time used some digital crayolas to add some colour. Non-destructive with hue & saturation adjustment layers & masks, so I can always go back and change colours if I feel like it.. I’ve named the first one the Alien Boss, and the second one Scary Smoke.. One person told me the first looks like some strange totem pole, and someone […]
As I didn’t have much time to take new pictures, I’m still editing some of my smoke pictures and I can tell you, it is quite addictive. Using the mirroring technique as mentioned in my previous post, I came up with this very abstract picture. It almost looks like a drawing or digital art I think, and most people will probably not think this is actually based on a photograph of smoke patterns (unless they have read my previous posts […]
I’ve been playing with my smoke pictures again this weekend, and found some more interesting shapes and forms.One of them just stood out to me and I’ll call it ‘the Sorcerer’. Don’t know if you see the same thing as I do… I had to do some cropping and cloning to remove smoke patterns that didn’t help the picture, to bring out the shape better. I went through all the pictures again, rotated each picture just in case, and couldn’t […]
Two weeks ago I read a very interesting article/tutorial on photographing smoke on the photocritic.org blog with some excellent pictures by Graham Jefferey. Amazed by the smoke pictures. I decided to give it a try and test my new off-camera flash cord at the same time. The setup: A black sweater pulled over a chair served as my background, and the little box the flash cord came in served as my snoot, to avoid light spilling on my background and […]