Just a little more smoke!

There is a few 'smoke' posts running at the moment.. so why not have another?
Smoke source:Incense
Here are a couple of my faves.. i am still looking at achieving some more interesting smoke patterns.

#1 is great! purple smoke on white looks very cool

These look great! What do you use for a background when doing this?

Wow, so cool, i especially dig the last one, how did you do that?

those are great .. each one has such a unique character. The depth of #1 really strikes me.

Very cool!! I really like the first one!! Great job!

Nice ones Nic! We chose some of the same colors too. Great minds...

Very nice I like the white one best myself but I'd take anyone of them ~

Wow, nice idea, it looks great, how do you do it?

Wow, those are really cool. I'd also love to know how you did it. =)

What was the material you used for the background?

love the 1st one!

Thankyou all so much for your comments.
Some of you have asked how this was done, and firstly i must say this is NOT my original idea or technique. I cannot remember who's images i first saw, but it was here on POTN a lil while back..sorry to that poster!!Your work was awesome and inspiring!

ok.. i shot this on my dining room table using an insence stick in a holder...the background was a piece of black velvet material. There was a good 4 feet at least of seperation from the background to avoid falloff from my light. I used a strobe to camera right and made a home made crude snoot to also try to keep direction where i wanted it..For focus i first set it on the end of the insence stick, then recomposed.My only light source was the strobe triggered by a sync remote on camera. i used the modeling light so i could actually see what i was focusing on.

PP was inverting for the white background.. and playing in Hue/Sat.. gave a USM and a lil glow.

Easy, yet can be fiddly at the same time and lots of fun tryign to get the smoke doing funky things like you want it too!

Nic

thanks for the explanation!

lcf wrote in post #2639172
thanks for the explanation!

You're very welcome

Nic