smoke #2

This shot has the same processing as yesterday, but to to add some colour I also added a layer (hue-saturation-lightness) and moved the hue slider around to find a suitable colour.

[Toni :)]

wow, this is cool, love the colour :)

[Brian Baptie]

Love the swirling effect at the top of the photo. Excellent!!

[Livia]

Very cool, eye-catching smoke shot!

[Denise]

Wow...this is very cool Lyn. Love the swirls.

[Deb Sulzberger]

Very clever, good shot

[Izzy Mathie]

this is amazing!

[Anja]

Wow, love the swirl!

[Tabbycat]

Gorgeous! You're really a pro at this, eh?

[Mike Warren]

Cool processing.

[Michelle]

Fantastic, this is really cool

[Amy Spada]

Super shot! Love this smoke collection you're doing!

[Devrin Wimberley]

This is so cool! Love the swirls and the color. Well done.

[Michael Witt]

Wow, your smoke shots are so much sharper than mine. Looking back, I used f/2.8 and you used f/8. Big difference (duh).

[Lyn Todd]

@mikew I used manual settings, but auto focus this time. Way back in June I used manual focus & that was really 'hit & miss'. If you can get enough (side) light on the smoke it is much easier using autofocus - & the camera does not need to be on a tripod because it was shooting at 125. I used the camera histogram to fine tune the exposure & went to f5.6 for some of them, but preferred f8. I took about 30 mins to get the setup & settings right. Some brands of incense burn differently too, so it may be that.