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My daughter and I are having a debate on what we see in the smoke! Please post what you see! I don't want to say what we see because I don't want you to influence your vision!
BTW - This is my first attempt at photographing smoke, I hope you like it!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6...bc2852b6_z.jpg
Smoke by Denise Trocio, on Flickr
Hi, this is a really cool image of a sad green dude, with his Red Wings cap backwards, studying his weird beard in the mirror.
It's obvious but I'm not saying.
Ok a flower. Or is it?
Seahorses.
Iron Man? Or a luchador?
Great shot and edit Denise. I like it a lot! I used the recover slider in Lightroom and this is what showed up:
Attachment 642
Note: This photo is legit. Your Lightroom or other editing program might show you different results. There's no guarantee for result. Don't try this at home.
OMG, that's exactly what I saw.
First I saw an elephant with both normal and horses ears, but luckily Lightroom saved the day:rolleyes:
An unhappy childhood.......:p
Not mine...someone elses...mine was great.....:)
The more I look at it the more I see the elephant...but the elephant I see is an intense-angry elephant that doesn't like it's picture being taken....
......seriously...step....away.....from the camera......
I remember asking the same kind of question back when I was a teenager in the 70’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by ddt0725
Don’t give in to peer pressure, stay away from drugs.
LOL! Now I can clearly see it is an elephant!! My daugher sees a butterfly but last night I could very clearly see two angels even though I clipped off part of the halos) ...must be the drugs my doctor put me on yesterday because it is now very clearly an elephant!
Here was what I saw ...
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Haha this is so stupid, even with your edit I see the elephant. Once you see something in it, it just doesn't go away:p
I see you think you're on Planet Earth... go easy on the space-cake mr Nitehawk;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
Denise, as soon as you have a clear picture on what you see in the photo you should rotate it 180 degrees and try again. Up-side-down it's not that easy:rolleyes:It's completely different and I still haven't figured it out, nor does Lightroom. Useless program:p
Stay away from the light!Quote:
Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
Denise you and I must be on the same page. I tried that last weekend for the first time with a candle. Didn't work out so well and just received my incense sticks in the mail today. I saw an elephant also for the record.
I see a cocktail glass with a bow on it.
Am I female?
This was alot of fun (joint effort between me and my daughter)! The incense worked well. The smoke you see above was unaltered. I didn't know how to do the mirror thing in CS5, so my daughter did that for me and just cleaned up a few of the very light smoky areas on the outside of the main stream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayson
I am looking forward to doing more and applying various other pp effects. Also, looking forward to seeing what you come up with! There was an article on it in Petersen's Photographic magazine Vol. #3 recently ...that's what got me motivated to try it!
I see condensed nicotine, water vapor and/or soot particles.
Perhaps I've been in the fluid mechanics and diagnostics industry for too long?
FYI candles don't soot very well unless you blow them out. The bright yellow region of a candle flame is high in soot (it's the hot soot that's glowing yellow) but a well-designed flame finishes the burn out of the soot into CO or CO2.
If you have a candle made from a wax that is too low-temp or if there's an A/C unit or fan on the flame will not close at the top and may move around. These flames will continuously create soot but not a lot.
You can create as much soot as a blown-out candle but in a continuous fashion by "quenching" the flame. Take a metal knife and cut about halfway across the candle flame's yellowest part - tilt the blade up a bit so the sooty air flows off. You'll get a huge amount of soot - for a short period of time. The problem is that the knife blade gets hot and no longer stops the combustion process - the flame just bends around the knife so you've got to keep your flow blockage cooled. However, if you can manage it you'll get a much blacker and continuous supply of soot to play with.
Of course, if you're the camping type that has a kerosene lamp you can always just adjust it so too much of the lamp is exposed. That's another way to create a huge sooty mess - but one that can make interesting patterns.
Experiment with cookies through the soot - especially one that lets a single line of light through. The cross section of the soot field can be far more interesting than a flash exposure of the cloud as a whole.
p.s. probably way more info than you wanted but in graduate school I studied combustion...I just can't help myself.
I think I like using the incense much better ...at least it smelled like strawberry/kiwi in my kitchen when I was finished ...LOL!
That was funny! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ChadS
I was blowing it out every time I shot and was only getting a couple pictures per smoke. Having three little ones assisting wasn't making it any easier. Here is what I came up with.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChadS
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sjWnT8J8qM...+7D_020821.jpg
Incense is going to be much better I bet! Denise thank you for renewing my interest in this and sorry to hijack your thread. I will quit now.:o
Oh, no problem! And please don't quit!! I like the tones of the one you posted and feel free to post more here when you have tried the incense! I am hoping to get back at doing a few more tonight or tomorrow night as I want to try different colors and effects. In the magazine I have, he also cut & pasted other photos within the photo of the smoke so I am looking forward to trying that ...I just need to come up with another photo that will work well with it. He also shows a few photos using the plug-in Flexify 2 to create abstractions of the smoke. I am not sure if I will go that far with it but ....hmmm, maybe!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayson
I was inspired by this thread to try this myself, so I went out and picked up some incense today and gave it a go. Here are a few results from my first attempt. I plan on doing many more. Its really fun and easy.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/6...b2005666_z.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7247/6...6a90e155_z.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5330/6...2515a507_z.jpg
Very well done, Nick!! I especially like the last one!
I'm very happy I inspired you to give it a try ...I agree, it is alot of fun and very easy!
Hmmm ...I think you just gave me an idea for the latest assignment :)
Here are a few other ones that I had done awhile back ...
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/7...870621a9_z.jpg
IMG_3383 by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6104/6...22cf5822_z.jpg
IMG_5342 by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr