I have been working on a series of shots. Over 500 shots taken these are the best of those in my opinion. Enjoy and please add your comments if you feel so inclined. Good or bad, feedback is how we learn......


www.scatteredlightphotography.com

Rob... Those are just fantastic!

Thanks Swampy....I have been absent from here for awhile...havent really had anything to share as of late....

those are really nice Rob, I wish there was a way i could identify each image ( there may well be but i havent noticed) as there are two where i think the smoke should billow out a bit before it goes up (both seem to be at the same horizontal angle ) and i could also say which is my favorite :grin:
But a really nice series :bigthmb:

Palms

These are great! I didn't go thru the whole lot...did you have any colour ones...? If not, then I think a touch of colour would be great. If there are, then ignore me. ;)

Thanks palms1, they are numbered 1-7

Smoking Rose 1
Smoking Rose 2
etc.....

Rob, those are really neat. How did you do it?
and I agree it would be nice to see some color, or would that take away from the effect??

Thanks Cathy, the effect is not nearly as dramatic in color. Sorry but I dont have time to explain how I did it right now. I will try to do that tonight at home. I am at work right now.

nvm.........

Ziaphra, that is great.

Hi.
they're really fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
regards.charles

Thanks all, I will try and post how I did it when I get home tonight.

In the mean time, here is a picture of the setup.

http://www.scatteredlightphotography.com/Webshots/Setup.jpg

Thanks palms1, they are numbered 1-7

Smoking Rose 1
Smoking Rose 2
etc.....

Still got confused :aghast:
But i want a garage now, :grin:
another question did you take one of just the smoke for a stock photo ? that could come in very handy ! !

Palms

Palms if you hover your mouse over the little thumbnails for a second it will tell you what the file names is. Starting from the left the first one is Smoking Rose 1, then the next one is Smoking Rose 2...etc......I have hundreds of just the smoke. I started out just shooting the smoke to get a handle on the lighting. Then I added the rose.

I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty Rob! Such gorgeous images! Would you mind telling us how you went about getting them...?



Actually, I kinda do. I couldnt see this at work because it was blocked by our firewall. I didnt post these here with the idea that they could be redone. I am not mad or trying to be an A-hole. If it is expected that any image post here is free to be manipulated then I am sorry. I will not post anymore that I dont wish to be manipulated. Again not upset at you or anything but since you sorta asked.....

Its a good edit though......

hay rob, i totaly understand how you feal, i hate people taking my images and re-editing them. Unless i ask them too. So dont feal bad and no your not an A-hole. lol. just next time you post pute a small line that says please dont edit the images.

Its like taking the mona-lisa and repainting her with teeth

Actually, I kinda do. I couldnt see this at work because it was blocked by our firewall. I didnt post these here with the idea that they could be redone. I am not mad or trying to be an A-hole. If it is expected that any image post here is free to be manipulated then I am sorry. I will not post anymore that I dont wish to be manipulated. Again not upset at you or anything but since you sorta asked.....

Its a good edit though......

No worries...all removed.

Thanks all, I will try and post how I did it when I get home tonight.

In the mean time, here is a picture of the setup.

http://www.scatteredlightphotography.com/Webshots/Setup.jpg

interesting setup...i noticed you have more bikes than i do, are any of those 29'ers?

interesting setup...i noticed you have more bikes than i do, are any of those 29'ers?

Nope, no 29'ers. Two Racer-X's, One Airborne (road bike) and a couple of frames on the wall. I'm too short really for a 29er to be practicle 5'6". The frame geometry seems to suffer a bit when they try to make em small. Not to mention it just looks funny...

No worries...all removed.



Thanks Ziaphra. Just so you know I have posted stuff here specifically for others to edit. I just spent a lot of time on this series so its kind of a personal body of work, if you get what I mean.

Palms if you hover your mouse over the little thumbnails for a second it will tell you what the file names is. Starting from the left the first one is Smoking Rose 1, then the next one is Smoking Rose 2...etc......I have hundreds of just the smoke. I started out just shooting the smoke to get a handle on the lighting. Then I added the rose.

sorry to be a pain here, but i have no little thumbnails just one image and the buttons to scroll to the next etc. I am using firefox, I was going to try IE but it needs the flash updating and i couldnt be bothered :blush:

Palms

sorry to be a pain here, but i have no little thumbnails just one image and the buttons to scroll to the next etc. I am using firefox, I was going to try IE but it needs the flash updating and i couldnt be bothered :blush:

Palms

No need to do that. When I got home last night I took a look at the page with my 19 inch monitor and you cant see the thumbnails. At work on my 20 inch monitor you can see them. I am going to adjust the gallery. check back a little later, maybe in 30 minutes or so.....

try it now....

Still no thumbnails but the fourth image in goes smaller (not thumbnail size) as do the ones that follow

Palms

Still no thumbnails but the fourth image in goes smaller (not thumbnail size) as do the ones that follow

Palms

I dont know what then. It works fine in IE. All the pictures are the same size and the thumbnails are present at the bottom of the main picture. No one else has said they are having any problems. I guess that doesnt mean they arent, just that no one has said so.......


If you go to:

http://www.scatteredlightphotography.com/Webshots


then you can look at the files one at a time.....

I had a rare thought cleared out the "private data" incase that didnt help, and hey presto it is working now tumbnails and all
:grin:

Back to the business in hand now number 3 is my favorite of them all

the ones that i said about the smoke not looking quite right (strange really when the smoke is actually doing that) are numbers 5 and 2

Palms

Interesting. My favorite, if I had to pick one, is number 7. Thanks for figuring out what the problem was or I would have spent the rest of the day thinking about it....

Rob -- very cool concept and execution!! Using your second link, I really liked the colored smoke by itself also -- "tricolor" and "red & green". Also the "hard knocks" cat, of course. (Palms, be sure to check out that link ;) )

Thanks for sharing -- might get some of our creative juices perking!

Thanks Ziaphra. Just so you know I have posted stuff here specifically for others to edit. I just spent a lot of time on this series so its kind of a personal body of work, if you get what I mean.

Nope...totally understand hun.

Great pics Rob.
What kind of smoke is it?

Thanks. It's incense smoke...

Thanks. It's incense smoke...

Ah, thanks.

To me, a headache-inducing smell, heh.

Ah, thanks.

To me, a headache-inducing smell, heh.

Or a good sign your teenager is trying to cover up the greens. Had my buddy just have that trouble. His teen was burning insences in his room thinking his dad would be stupid not to notice. Kids! Of cource this is totaly off the subject of the forum.

Quick question, what is that you have over your flash. it looks like a homemade difuser out of a milkcart?

Its a cardboard box formed into a square tube, open and uncovered on the end. Not meant to difuse, meant to direct the flash and keep it from spilling onto the background. Its a Southbeach diet premade meal box......

sweet! nice idea