His Royal Highness

Last smoke shot until I acquire some new and improved photoshop skills ;p

This was shot in black and white to see if i could solve the background problem... this didn't quite work because adding colour to the smoke seems to tinge the background as well... so once again, converted used nik silver efex to add colour through a toner...

I think it looks better large :)

For "get pushed" this week Mike Gifford challenged me to do some smoke photography which, he'd rightly pointed out, i'd never tried before...

For those who were wondering, here are the two links Mike gave me for help with smoke shots... these vids are extremely helpful and I pretty much followed these instructions...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2d281_HoEQ&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_876797
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_jUAvuilE&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_132174

tx for all the lovely comments and favs on my alien tango... really hoping to be back out for street sometime soon... unfortunately this week i got sucked into a vortex at work and was lucky to have time to grab lunch!

[Kerri]

Cool

[Jake Sorensen]

nice smoke shot

[Michael Elliott]

Thats so cool. I got to try smoke one day (not smoking but shooting it ... with a camera :)

[☠northy]

@michaelelliott the shooting set up is actually pretty easy... it was the post processing that i found tricky...

[❀ Lynn]

Cool...totally see the person!

[Terry R]

I found LR can work really well for processing smoke shots. I still like doing some of it in Photoshop too though. This one looks great.

[☠northy]

@terryvet92 oh yes... i did some tweaking in LR (clarity, blacks and exposure)... i guess i didn't really need to go into PSE, except (a) i was originally going for true colour, and (b) PSE is my pathway to nik silver efex :)

[Terry R]

@northy I like nik silver efex a lot too and I'm really in love with the Nik Color Efex. :)

[☠northy]

@lynnb it's wierd... i think i've stopped seeing the smoke... i have another one that looks like a ram :)

[Simon]

Great work Northy

[Maggiemae]

You are so good to persevere with this! But that's what we do, this is fabulous!

[Janelle]

Great work. I have never tried these. They look tricky. Looks like a lion in profile to me

[Dana Palermo]

Great smoke shot! Has lots of curvature to it!!

[Humphrey Hippo]

Nice job. Hope the house detoxes soon. ;)

[☠northy]

@humphreyhippo ha ha ha! i was just thinking that... my mom is arriving shortly for a visit and she has a super sensitive sense of smell... i am bound to hear about it... :)

[Dominique]

Wow - that's some pretty swell smoke spirals!

[Kass]

Very nice! I still need to add this to my 'try list'. I also need to try nik silver. So many things to try, so little time. :(

[Rinus van der Craats]

Nice try for the coming winter evenings. Thanx for the inspiration

[ladyjane]

This is so sharp. I love the pattern you captured.

[Morgan]

I love doing smoke photos - they're fun to take, and really fun to look at afterwards - I'm not sure what image I make out of it.... but I'll keep looking. I think you did a lovely job with this one.

[Jan Hall]

another good one!

[Kate Klinck]

excellent smoke shot, fav!

[Edie]

This is pretty cool.

[Beau]

Great capture. Love how you captured it flowing so smoothly.