'Smoke on the Water'

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This one really doesn`t lack drama! :-) The surreal light and the ghostly forest of the boat mast`s, effective to say the least!

 

I like this one a lot!

 

Alpo

Man, this is really good! At first it reminded me of a movie scene: have you seen Dracula by Coppola (the last one)? It reminds me of that scene at the beginning of the movie where they show all the people impaled... I would call this photo "Battlefield". Very nice, the smoke gives a "filter effect", almost like a sepia tone.

Hi Antonio, thanks for the comment. Yes I know very well Coppola's Dracula, which is an amazing film, especially in term of photography : All the effects were done on set during photography, and there is almost no digital post-production. I'm very flatered by the comparison !

 

Very unique. Love the dark mood.

Alpo ( sorry i only now noticed your comment ) and Tero :

thank you very much for your comments

This is with Cybershot DSC-N2? Bravo! It is lovely.

Yes, with my cybershot, on manual. I took about 20 shots of the fireworks only this one an perhaps a second one worth anything. But if only for this one, it makes me quite happy. Details : 2 minutes of gradings on this one : just a quick curve correction ( only the main RGB )a bit of sharpenning, and that's all.

I love sensation coming from this pic, I got a feeling of looking at the moon from a space ship..very nice ! bravo my friend.

very good... dramatic... nice tones and color

Thank you very much for your time and kind comments. Laurent, actually this one is the most interesting from this fireworks serie I've made, as it is mostly smoke, filling the whole frame, therefore giving an almost abstract picture because we loose a bit the sense of scale.

yes, also a very tragic picture , even if you look at it up and down..i tryed (oooops my neck)...;_)

perhaps this sensation is a little bit stronger if you cut the 1/3 of upper image and only get big part of grey area ? see what i mean? just a suggestion as it is allready very good...;-)

 

Actually : Your suggestion was the first crop I did actually ! but then when printing, I realised, that something didn't quite work too well.

 

I did quite a lot of cropping experiments on this one, always trying to get quite tight. This one is a little bit of a "mistake" to be honest, but then what I realised, is that keeping the black sky at the top, was in fact balancing the whole picture a bit better.

 

 

...in your portfolio.. magnificent!

Very nice shot!