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I had done some smoke shots before but with no success but I found a processing method as well as learning from previous mistakes and made the images below.
I used one studio light at 1/4 power to the left of an incense stick which was in front of a sheet of black mounting card. The flash was blocked from hitting the board to give a perfect black background. The processing in PS was the difficult part but once you find your way it was easy.
Alan.
Don’t we have a dedicated Fluid Dynamics section? Mark?
They look great, particularly like the forms in the centre section, before the smoke gives in to the drag of the air,
but I suppose those forms are rather small…The colouring is, well, nice, but it does maybe seem a bit arbitrary-
also, there are some artifacty bits of yellowy stuff in the white of the background,
which perhaps could be erased for purity’s sake-Not sure whether these are at all abstract though-
unless the inversion and colouring qualifies them-
Once you know what it is, It’s kinda obvious it’s representational…But that’s another thing entirely-
joseph
Nice set of shots Alan,
I prefer the first one, with the smoke coming from the corner, I must give this ago myself sometime.
A reply…belated…but at the risk of the wrath of JB, a reply none-the-less. ;-) Unfortunately the ironic occasion of a broken humerus in a 5 year old does put priorities elsewhere.
I can’t see the yellow you speak of JB – calibration time again I think. Many thanks for the reply. The colour – definitely arbitrary and just some fooling around but when you reverse the colour from white to black I suppose the damage is already done. This was my first attempt at such tomfoolery and I’ve seen way better elsewhere so advice is most welcome.
PD – this sort of thing is something I don’t do much of. A background setup, a lighting set up, the source height setup, the camera setup…the requirement to redesign a kitchen and disarm all smoke alarms…I just don’t have the patience. But this is the 10% where the 90% is on PP. If you’re trying it though put different kitchen implements and items at hand in the path of the smoke at source – this generates the eddies and vortices. I found a ruler placed at 45deg over the smoke has some nice effects.
Abstract – yeah…but I suppose once you know what anything is in abstract it no longer becomes so.
Alan.
Sounds like you had a very humerus weekend then Alan- not-
Hope everyone’s ok..I wasn’t referring to you in particular Alan,
we all know you’re a very mannerly chap…It’s in the second picture, on the upper rhs mostly-
a light reddy yellowy tone-
but as the rest of the pic has a white background, perhaps it might be better if it were all white-It’s a product of the inversion obviously, where the background didn’t go completely black…
joseph
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