Like urine , smoke is beautiful , powerful and unpredictable . The 82 photograph from this week’sShooting Challengenot only capture sens as smoke , but smoke as demons , jellyfish and … OK … sometimes just as smoke .
Lead Shot – Toasted
The set - up is trivial : an industrial hot lamp ( 700wt ) is shining at a small angle from from below and the makeshift barn doors guard against idle leaks onto tv camera or the background vista . shameful body key is smear liberally all over my face / hand and the face is pose in the main outside the minute strip of ignitor and is lit by an extra hotlamp ( 100wt ) from above . I ’m shooting in my attic in a long hall where strain turbulence is less hectic , so no setting is placed behind me . Smoke source is a pair of moxa sticks – thick-skulled sticks used for heat practical software in G-Jo . They claim moxa skunk is therapeutic so if I do n’t kick the bucket this week , I will file a patent of invention under alternative moxa therapy .
Now , the fun part … . It ’s a self - portraiture and I ’m using Canon G11 , no removed passing so I got ta pass over over my construction , collect moxa bullet in my mouth and hold it still – smoke chance its was out on its
own , otherwise forcing it solvent in a foggy picture with no distinct dope traces . So here I am , jumping over the table , gasping some smoke and playing paralyzed in front of the tv camera with hands over my eyes . It was quite a view , I ’m recount you , I ’m pretty sure my moxa sticks will have kickass stories to tell on the other side of the rainbow bridge . I shot at 1/250 , f3.5 , ISO100 .
-Chris Schween
Where There’s Smoke, There’s More Smoke
I ’ve done plenty of skunk scene with single incense sticks but tried four at once this time , and tried beat the sticks themselves in form as well . Generally the smoke got too meddling . I get the best results when blowing the smoke out of the way for a few seconds and capturing the recover stream of green goddess . Ext . trice was position to the right , with a mirror placed to the left reflect back some of the light . In Photoshop I tinge the upper and low portion of the bullet to accomplish a variety of flame outcome . Wife was not happy with the smell of the house afterward . Sony A550 at f/20 , 1/80 sec . , ISO-200 through Sigma 50 mm Macro Lens with External Flash .
-Ben Torode
The Temptation of Buddha
-Shot with a Canon 40D , Tamron 28 - 75 mm f/2.8 XR Di lens
-1/1250 shutter at f/4.5 , ISO 500 ( Buddha image )
-1/160 shutter at f/6.3 , ISO 1000 ( smoke temptresses )
-Three freestanding picture composited in Photoshop CS3 ; used sun as sluttish informant for all three images , plus boyfriend ’s white T - shirt as reflector and colored shorts to block undesirable reflections ; smutty dress used as screen background
-Incense stick provide smoke ( burned two at a clock time for more vivid smoke )
-Smoke and highlight / tincture from hummer colored blue in Photoshop
I was inspired by the womanly qualities of the sess , which guide to the musical theme of portray the heater as “ temptresses . ” The opposite of lust and enticement , a figurine of Buddha provided a quick demarcation to the glacial apparitions . He remains serene and introspective , paying no paying attention to the transient phantasm .
-Kristina Jacinth
Life Savers
Setup was a unmarried incense stick with two New York minute ( LP120 and SB-20 ) at flop and left a few inches away from the stick and somewhat below the frame , fired at an upward angle with a unripened gelatin on the right strobe and a red gelatin on the left one . The background is a composition board loge with a fatal material over it about a understructure and a half away . Everything was sit on my dining room table , and I had the dining room light on , otherwise I had no Bob Hope of getting the focussing decent . But at those options the textile well stay black . The colors are straight out of tv camera , but I did some canonical line , exposure and noise reduction adjustment in lightroom . I originally seek to burgeon forth this on a white background , but was not successful in getting the smoke to stand out . The white smoke blended in with the white background . After getting a couple shots with livid smoke on black background , I realized it really needed something else , and append the two gels to give the trope another dimension . The hardest part of this guessing was find a place near me that sells incense . I ended up run to a “ make your own candle ” shop . The incense advertised that it burns for 45 mins . I spent the first 2 third of that time figuring out my frame-up and the last third in reality taking likely shots . The one I ’m submit is the very last shot I engage , and I cerebrate it ’s the strong . canyon XSi with Canon 100 mm f/2.8 macro instruction , 1/200 sec @ f/6.3 , ISO 100
-Joe Simon Zelotes
Jellyfish
I had n’t intended to participate in the challenge but then I stumble upon my “ Zero Blaster ” gage ring plaything gun in the back of a closet . After a quick alteration of batteries I was up and running shooting smoke . I photograph the “ Blaster ” rings across the front of the lens and set the remote flash bulb to attack upwards into the smoke . The anchor ring locomote quickly across the underframe so it take about 100 barb to get a few nicely redact and lit mob after trying a few different angles . Nikon D90 , 45 mm ( 35 mm equivalent),1/1000s , f/9.0 , ISO 250
-Joe Sugden
Yin + Yang
I was always concerned in sens photography , back in mellow school day , I studied the in and outs very thoroughly and I ended up making my own rig using strobe with makeshift snoots . I decide to seek my luck with it again . An incense retinal cone was used as the smoke provider for this one , and I had the photo taken in a all dark room . I used crossing strobe with my secure old paper snob thought from back in eminent schooltime to purport the flash and specify diffusion . Upon closing of my photoshoot , I walk out of the room with red eyes from all of the sens . I then upload the photos into photoshop ; then had my way with them . Once I was finish , I made a mark , and since the printer print out the photo upside - down , I saw the devil head look at me . I ’m kind of weird in the sense that I think this was one of the coolest things ever … and still do . I still employ the peaceable preference of the picture initially just so masses can experience the effect I first had when seeing the photo upside - down . Nikon D70 , Nikkor f/2.8 80 - 200 mm , ISO 400 , f/5.6 , 1/250s . Post - Processing – Adobe CS5 , mirror image , inverted colors , desaturated , resaturated with a slope .
-Nick Page
WINNER – Drink
-Nick Sprankle
As always , a big thanks to everyone for taking fourth dimension out of their week and get in . There are many , many wonderful shot in the two galleries below . Full - size , wallpaper - quick versions can be determine onflickr .
Gallery 1 ( one - page persuasion )
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-smoke-gallery-1-5661918
picture gallery 2 ( one - page aspect )
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-smoke-gallery-2-5661923
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