ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

For this image I set up a table with a small shot glass, put a stick of incense in the glass and and lit it. Behind the table was a sheet of black vinyl paper as it is called. I have a flash outfitted with a magmod system and this was mounted to the magmod grid to focus the light tightly. The flash was very close to the column of smoke and placed to the side at 90 degrees to the camera. I took hundreds of shots with the following:
Canon 6D Mark II
Canon 24-105 kit lens shot at the full extension of 105 mm
Shutter speed was 1/160 in keeping with 6D II flash sync speed
ISO 200
F/8 because that is the sweet spot for this lens and I wanted good DOF through and through the smoke

Out of the hundreds of shots I chose the ones with the most discernible shapes. After selecting a shot, I did basic edits in lightroom and then took it into lightroom to add a hue and saturation layer and then added a gradient layer, choosing this pre designed color pattern in Photoshop.

On Thursday it took first place for intermediate pictorial and best image of the month dozens of other shots that night at my local camera club so I was pretty psyched!

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PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Interesting approach and creative outcomes.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I didn't look at the dng, but the first (blue-toned) jpg is mesmerizing! There must be a color space discrepancy because the download is much more to aqua-turquoise while I'm seeing the thumbnail as purplish. I actually prefer the thumbnail colors

Thanks so much for taking the time time to explain your setup and editing.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Nice work! Good point, Linda, the colors shift noticeably between the thumbnails and the DL.

Iankahler Loc: Seattle WA

I have never tried this.... but the examples I have seen are always so fascinating

Camera Man Loc: Michigan

Really really nice,thank you for the information on how you accomplish those photo. I will have to try it. Thanks for sharing 👍👍

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Pat, these are stunning. Great job. I'm on my cell phone right now and do not see the color shift Linda sees.

Thanks for sharing these and the way you did it.

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Thank-You very much Frank!

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Thank-You Linda, I myself only got it from the generous providers of you tube. The hard part is gathering all the stuff and actually executing it!

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Thanks Mike!

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Thanks Stan.

tomc601 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

They would make excellent brushes in PS.

bobkat0178a

Wow cool !!!

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Dang, wish I knew how to make a brush in PS! Thanks,

ppage Loc: Pittsburg, (San Francisco area)

Thanks!