fuligo fashion

My get-Pushed-9 challenge from Mel (@emjay8 ) was to photograph smoke. After an hour with my head covered in incense, trying to find something a little different, I started capturing various 'figures'.

Here I have used a free lightroom invert preset ( http://blogs.oreilly.com/lightroom/2007/03/free-lr-adventure-invert-solar-1.html); and apart from adjusting hue, and minor sharpening and softening of some areas, this is the composition as captured.

Fuligo is the Latin word for 'soot' and fuliginous once described noxious bodily vapors. It can be used to describe things such as dense fogs, malevolent clouds, or overworked chimney sweeps (should you happen to come across one!).

[m9f9l]

This is really cool! It looks like a fashion model sketch. Do you see it??

[m9f9l]

Oooohhh! That's probably where you came up with the title! doh!

[Lyn Todd]

@m9f9l I thought I had better put it in the title just in case no one saw anything apart from a lot of smoke. :)

[Kass]

Wonderful! Love that it looks like a sketch.

[Fay Lin]

Wow interesting shot. This is very artistic.

[☠northy]

this is fantabulous! really well done and gorgeous! i do love how it looks like a stylized fashion drawing!!

[Lyn Todd]

@emjay8 something a bit different here Mel, hope this meets the brief!!. :)

[Michelle Blackford]

LOVE this! I totally see the sketch! Very cool!

[Aaron]

Awesome shot! And I have two Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs, I am familiar with "malevolent clouds" ;-) (@rockinrobyn can vouch I'm sure!)

[lindseyingphoto]

wow! i could look at this forever. forever.

[Velina]

Wow, I think it's very close to perfect! And this coloring is amazing! It's very hard for me to extract the smoke in Photoshop and give it a color.

[Lyn Todd]

@velina thanks Velina - I am a fan of Gavin Hoey's tutorials & find this one about smoke colouring really easy to follow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_jUAvuilE :)

[SIMMY]

Oh that is wicked, fab fab fab

[Mel]

Very cool! I love the colour and the person figure in it! Challenge complete for sure, hope you enjoyed it :)

[Michelle]

Beautifully captured

[Velina]

@ltodd Wow, Lyn, I'm so thankful for this link, I think I'm going to try a smoke shot again. I knew another technique for processing the smoke, which is harder to do! Thanks again! :x

[AutomaticSlim]

That's fantastic.

[Mike Gifford]

Lyn, thanks for the pointer to the preset and tutorial!

[Mike Warren]

Great color and contrast. Like the process and composition.

[Lyn Todd]

@mikegifford - happy to share anytime Mike.Thanks go to you for the head-start with Lightroom!

[Sophie]

Awesome shot!!! Love it! Fav'

[Stephanie Dc]

Fantastic shot :)

[JulieCo]

Never tried shooting smoke but this image makes me want to do it soon!

[Caroline]

This is amazing! It's so beautiful and elegant and unexpected and accidental. It looks like a genie.

[Betsie's Pinto Pony]

I absolutely see a figure in the smoke. It's a wonderful shot!

[Sharon]

Congratulations on winning the get pushed challenge!

[Rachel Mackenzie]

This is just stunning! Congratulations on winning the challenge, very much deserved. :)

[Lyn Todd]

@sharritta @rachelmackenzie thankyou so much for the kind words, the follows and the notification ladies. Sharon, I was so amazed by your message first thing this morning, that at first I did not even understand it!!...... :-D

[shannon]

my god...

[Sean O'Neill]

This is incredible. I see a figure, a tall slender woman in a figure hugging dress with a wrap around her shoulders and arms and short hair. Wow. I love this. Earned a follow and fav.

[Lyn Todd]

@seanoneill Thanks Sean. - and I bet I would never be able to recreate another figure exactly like this if I tried for a very long time!!

[Sean O'Neill]

@ltodd Which is how it should be, but I bet you'd create something equally as amazing, but different.

[Debbie]

I love this one Lyn. I can see an incredible shapely figure.