Friday, October 16, 2009

Smoke Alien

Another video tutorial I found in Youtube was photographing smoke. The tutorial seems easy but actually doing it takes a lot of patience. Smoke doesn't pose for a picture, it moves quite chaotically depending on the wind draft; thus, focusing was difficult.

First I used incense to produce the smoke but I wasn't getting enough body of smoke. I switched to mosquito coil which produced adequate smoke.

The photo above was edited in Adobe Photoshop. The original cropped image is the after-left quadrant of the photo, which looked like a beast or alien; and the glow around the envisage mouth area is a bonus with the lighting, which is only a single Philips fluorescent bulb.

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