Smoke

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• Jan9376 (1774)
• [2007-04-16 23:14]

Awesome pp work - with simple but very effective composition. Great sharpness and contrast levels. I love the vivid colours against the white background.

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• Boots (97)
• [2007-04-16 23:38]

Very nicely done! I love the colour work here. How did you achieve that? We would love to know!

Cheers,

Andrew, "Boots".

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• rychousmama (228)
• [2007-04-16 23:42]

Ohh, mysterious and sensual but with a real punch because of those colors. Excellent eye-catching shot Siddharth, I love the white bright background to make the smoke pop out and also makes the lovely tonalities in the smoke even more vivid. Really good and balanced composition with the smoke running diagonally up the shot. Every square centimeter of the smoke trail is fascinating in and of itself. Great clarity and detail, I like how the simplicity gives the shot the feel that this could be anywhere. It almost looks like a really nice graphic. This would work well as a desktop background or screensaver ;). Gorgeous work, thanks for sharing!
-Lara

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• Freddie (6323)
• [2007-04-17 0:23]

Great experiment, Siddharth! :)

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• tucancr (3041)
• [2007-04-17 0:28]

Hi Siddharth,
Good shot of smoke, really nice artwork, very well presented.
Regards,
Iris

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• rajiv_077 (442)
• [2007-04-17 0:53]

Hi Siddharth

This is really so beautiful, good colours and shadow, very good creativity.

Top class picture.

cheers

rajiv

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• ls_photography (7289)
• [2007-04-17 10:12]

Very lovely colors and saturation.. as others have said. Simple but effective picture.
Thanks for sharing!
Leanne

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• nova (8651)
• [2007-04-17 20:27]

Nice experimental picture! the colors and designs created by the smoke are amazing! Well done!
Michel

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• Rajasekar (3440)
• [2007-04-17 21:27]

Hi Siddharth... The post processing looks really good. The shapes you have achieved are interesting. Excellent for first attempt...!

Just few things which I learnt abt smoke pics...
The key to achieve sharper smoke image is deeper depth of field, faster shutter speed and adequate lighting. If you have not shot this with higher f-stop number, try one with f8.0, adequate ligthing and shutter speed faster than 1/125 secs.

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• AKF (576)
• [2007-05-01 11:24]

Wow! How did you do this? Did you individually select portions of the smoke and give them colors? Decreasing the opacity of course! Please tell how you did this! Great work!

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• hmm43 (644)
• [2007-08-05 15:52]

wow great shot. how did you get these beautiful colors? i love the bright smoke colors against the white background. thanks for sharing
heather

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• anilca_31 (543)
• [2007-09-05 15:49]

Hi Siddharth,

First of all I would like to say hello to you.
I was goin through som of thepics and viewed some of the pics taken by u in cannon, I am unable to beleive that this camera is giving such good clarity and so much of variation in each shots.
Lovely and amazing shots ... I like your work.

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• rvmilton (86)
• [2008-05-18 23:53]

beautiful job done
gr8 shot
bye n take care
rvmilton