Smoke and light

[paul04]

I still need to fine-tune a lot but we're getting the hang of it. Once I get them as I want, I can start working at complexity.


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Nice pictures J-see

 

[J-see]

sure he wears blinkers

I'll have to look up "blinkers" to see if I should be flattered or offended.

 

[J-see]

 

[PatrickDeBie]

I think your all flogging a dead horse with J-see

I'm not familiar with that proverb. We don't use that in the Netherlands. What does it mean?

 

[Roy1961]

Flogging a dead horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[J-see]

This one suffered more noise than I desired. Next time better.

 

[Pretzel]

Both of those last 2 are VERY cool though!!

 

[J-see]

Both of those last 2 are VERY cool though!!

Thanks. That's what photoshop is good for. I wanted to make a full circle with the first but was not even half there and my PS file was more than a gig. My comp started to do funny things.

 

[J-see]

Now I'm tired of smoke. It's up to the next.



Ah well, I had to do the last before I could go to sleep.

 

[J-see]

Day three.

I'm starting from scratch with processing since the previous approach didn't work. It's pretty darn hard to do this well. Everything from shooting to processing. What's interesting is that smoke shot sharp is great but there's also an out of focus point that turns it into something silky, like paint being poured into water. Both are hard to get.

 

[J-see]

These are some of those "silk" shots. I quite like that too. Going to 1/160s helps getting this effect.

 

[J-see]

 

[J-see]

It seems I got something to do when it is cold and gray out there.

 

[J-see]

I'm still fine-tuning.

Next attempt: the 50mm. It's easier to frame compared to the 35mm and being able to use AF makes it easier to get better shots. The smoke dances too much to keep the same pace when using manual especially with the 200mm which is a bit slow.

It's interesting to shoot series and see shapes build up and fall apart again. Very pretty.

 

[J-see]

 

[J-see]

An interesting new problem. My overlight is heating up the smoke making it travel much faster. Fixing the one problem triggers the other.

Anyways, I was curious what long exposure would look like:

 

[J-see]

To boldly go where no loony has gone before.

It's getting tiresome fixing one problem and in doing that triggering another.
I somehow need to perfect this, those shapes are too pretty.

 

[J-see]

I got shutter, aperture and exposure tuned. Now to find a way to not shed light on my backdrop.

 

[J-see]

Now explain me how to shoot this with flash.



Yes it's a composition but of a sequence.

 

[FastGlass]

What are you using to make the smoke?