thewags Loc: Phoenix

Playing with smoke photography...

These all came from photos I took in my darkened office using an incense stick for the smoke. The last one is a combination smoke photo twirlie.

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Aren’t they just fantastic! Incredible!

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

I like them.

joilva2728

FANTASTIC

Stephan G

"Ommmmmmm"

yorkiebyte Loc: Scottsdale, AZ/Bandon by the Sea, OR

VERY creative - and WELL done!!

northsidejoe Loc: pittsburgh

Very nice thanks for sharing saying hello from Pittsburgh.

MSW

way cool ... brings me back to the days when we left the shutter open and played with 4July sparklers ... nice work!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting.

donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida

Thanks, I love them all. You can bet I will give it a try.
I love the abstract nature of your Images.
Don

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Pretty cool.

Collie lover Loc: St. Louis, MO

These are fantastic. Would like to know more about how you created these; settings, etc.

Trixsy Pixsy Loc: WELLS SOMERSET UK

The things that people dream up! Amazingly varied results. NO idea how you did it !!!!

thewags Loc: Phoenix

How did I get these? I can tell you the simple part. I darkened my office, and used a black poster board as a background. The smoke came from an incense stick. I had a speed light on the side to light the smoke. A few trial and error shots to get a few descent shots of the smoke.

The processing is the fun part, the creative part. I usually start by isolating the best parts of the smoke photo, and often black out extraneous portions. Then I use various filters on the resulting image. I love Topaz Glow, and also Smart Photo Editor. They are easy and give some interesting results. I sometimes change something with Photoshop, and nearly always tweak things with Lightroom. I never do the same thing twice, and I usually go through several steps to get where I end up, so I can't really tell you the details of any particular one. The last photo, the Twirlie, started as usual. I used Topaz Glow to bring out some of the colors, and then I put it through the Twirlie process. Finally, to get the symmetry, I simply duplicated the best half of the photo and dragged as a mirror image to the other side. I've attached a photo of the smoke that I started with, and another photo with the Twirlie process I used. As you can see, the unprocessed smoke photos are rather bland.

CyberDave Loc: Pennsylvania

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A most 'Brilliant' set!~ Well Done!:> Warmest regards, 'CyberDave'...{Where there's smoke~there's 'creative' fire!}