This week I’ve been making smoke! Joss stick smoke, in fact.
All of these images started off as a shot of smoke lit with a single flash unit, against a black ( very black ) background. Each was then post-processed ( ie manipulated ) in Photoshop CC, which is where all of the colour and the reflections were added in.
Like inkblot images, you can see things in most of these shots! Well, I can!
Angels?
Kissing Ducks?
A burning joss stick – multi-layered, the exposure for the joss stick layer was flash plus 2 seconds to catch the red of the burn.