Smoke Signals

Playing with smoking tapers and Photoshop tonight

[Rosie Kind]

Peter this is brilliant and there seems to be no end to your talent Fav

[Tatiana]

Очень интересно и красиво,Питер!

[Connie]

Really cool

[Peter]

@rosiekind wow thank you for your wonderful comment and Fav. Rosie, never had talent just lots of enthusiasm, lol:)

[Peter]

@simta Большое спасибо, Татьяна сделала все с дымом, черную карту, вспышку, камеру, штатив и темную комнату :)

[Peter]

@conbell Thank you so much for finding the time to comments Connie its appreciated:)

[Babs]

Love it, this is something I have on my list of things to try, just need some more hours in a day though first.

[Annie D]

gorgeous curls and colours

[Hazel]

Turquoise and purple seahorses?!

[JeannieC57]

GORGEOUS.......... may I ask how you created the smoke... I never have much luck... and you are very talented....

[Terri]

This is so cool! Just beautiful!

[FBailey]

So very effective!!

[Peter]

@onewing Thank you for your comments Babs, I had been busy all day so needed something quick and simply to shoot indoors, I've tried this before but not posted the result:)

[Peter]

@annied Thank you for your comment Annie there was faint colour in the smoke but I cheated by increasing the saturation and vibrancy in Photoshop to make it pop:)

[Peter]

@quietpurplehaze Thanks Hazel, I saw a horses head as I processed the image, I'm sure Sigmund Freud would have a theory on what we both see, lol:)

[Peter]

@jeanniec57 Thank you for finding the time to comment Jeannie, its quite a low cost approach, all that's required is a taper or incense stick, off camera flash with cardboard blinkers to direct the light, black background, table lamp used to focus on the smoke switch off during the shot and your camera, I have included a link to Gavin Hoey's simply tutorial I used the same method and it does give brilliant results, best of luck just watch the tutorial first, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2d281_HoEQ

[Peter]

@terrinorthwind Thank you Terri for your lovely comment and fav. they are appreciated:)

[Peter]

@fbailey Thank you for finding the time to comment and add as a Fav, its appreciated:)

[Dawn]

Cool fav

[Mgreen]

Wonderful capture with great colours.

[Peter]

@dawnee Thank you for your comment and Fav dawn they are both appreciated:)

[Peter]

@greenpeg Thank you for finding the time to comment and add as fav its appreciated:)

[The Intermittent Photographer aka Blue Rose]

Very effective

[Hazel]

@pcoulson

Perhaps best not to go there!

[JeannieC57]

@pcoulson Thank you for answering me .... I won first place once with my smoke curls and it fascinates me.... the photo I did was almost an accident ...so I would like to re-create that .... I didn't think about incense .... that is a great idea... thank you...

[Peter]

@bluerose15 Thank you for finding the time to comment:)

[bkb in the city]

Well done

[Peter]

@bkbinthecity Thank you very much for your comment:)

[Jorlam]

Absolutely loving the colours and the form too.. It is very beautiful.
imho, increasing colour saturation is not cheating.. adding something which was not in the original shot is, in my mind, cheating..
i shoot raw and ETTR.. if i didn't add contrast/saturation etc i might as well delete the images because they look washed out and lifeless...
all the great photographers utilised dodging/burning for decrease/increase etc.. Essentially we do the same thing, we just do it a different way.

[Peter]

@jorlam Thank you for your encouraging and informed comments Jorlam, I also shoot raw and have to work my images, sometimes push the bounds of colour but never as must as this one, but as an arty shot thought it added to the image, reminder to self must use Lightroom more, lol:)