Comments on: Smokin’ Photography

By: kit rutland

kit rutland — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:10:56 +0000

Beautiful macro work. I’m going to try this at the weekend.. perhaps without the gun.

By: Big A

Big A — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:40:00 +0000

these are beautiful!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:32:00 +0000

wow great work with the smoke. the one with the spoon definatly turned out cool too.

(seen on photofriday)

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:31:00 +0000

Great! Well done!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:12:00 +0000

You can see some of my pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76442934@N00/sets/72157594482411277/

By: SDR

SDR — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:35:00 +0000

Great job.. I like the one with the gun as well..
I did some experimenting with smoke as well, and it is a lot of fun indeed..

Have a look at my results on http://www.lumendipity.com/blog

By: adoching

adoching — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:25:00 +0000

i would definitely love it. good job!

By: Mary E

Mary E — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:13:00 +0000

Is this what they meant by a smoking gun in all those detectives and police shows?

I like these shots…but it seems like you have been having too much fun playing with smoke. It causes me to think of all those silly sayings like “where there is smoke there is fire” or the lyrics of the song “smoke on the water”. So when are you going to do some smoke shots of these???

By: LeggNet

LeggNet — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:07:00 +0000

Thanks Michelle and Steve for the comments.

@Steve:

On the images, I first adjusted the levels to ensure that the black was truly black (R0,G0,B0). This involved some cloning to remove any items that were not truly black (particles in the air reflecting light, background reflections, etc.). I then just adjusted the saturation and hue of the entire image. I suppose you could mask and paint, but with the background being true black (or true white if you've inverted the image), the hue/saturation adjustment doesn't effect it at all.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:40:00 +0000

These are great! When you color in PP do you adjust hue & saturation forthe whole image or did you apply it to “paint” different parts

By: ~Michelle~

~Michelle~ — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:49:00 +0000

These are so beautiful! Thank you also for explaining your process, I found that to be quite interesting! I appreciate your creativity.