First try at smoke photography

This is my first try at smoke art took me a lot of trys to get some decent shot. let me know what you all think. all types of critiques welcome thanks.

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Very cool. I like the second one alot. How do you get the smoke and light to capture these types of images?

niiccee! I see Darth Vader in #2 with his fingers pressed together.

To setup the basics i used this video http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=J2d281_HoEQ and to jazz it up a bit i followed this video http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=Iv39UmuiYNA. the second video is good, show how to edit your shots in photo shop, and i played around with the lighting a bit, on the second shot i placed a card board on the back of my light source and the light reflected off the board and gave the cool effect on the golden yellow at the bottom

Very nice shot, after seeing those links to youtube I'm gonna have to give this a try also!

Nodin wrote in post #11200228
niiccee! I see Darth Vader in #2 with his fingers pressed together.

I see that as well, looks like he's looking up and praying or something... wait, he doesn't need to pray does he?

That looks amazing!

torquey5 wrote in post #11205460
I see that as well, looks like he's looking up and praying or something... wait, he doesn't need to pray does he?

He's scheming