36/365: Catching Smoke

This was a lot of fun, but I could definitely use some more practice. Pictured is some candle smoke on black and then inverted into the negative, toned red in PIXLR, a great online image editor comparable to photoshop, but not nearly as powerful, but it is free, guess life's a tradeoff sometimes. I'll definitely try this again, because I've always wanted to do it. Could use a proper off camera flash and background though, and incense would have worked better for this one, since a candle stops smoking very quickly, if you use this technique you have to move fast. Anyway, hope you like it :)

 

HOW I MADE THIS IMAGE:

Nikon D80

Nikkor 50mm AF-D 1.8

ISO 100

f16

1/200th second exposure

 

a candle

black background (I used a shirt over a binder, propped up between a book and a water jug)

on board flash

 

You can check out PIXLR here: pixlr.com/editor/

 

Shot in California. Post Processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and PIXLR.

Done