Smoke Girl

awesome imagery

Wow... amazing amount of cr_p over a simple picture.

Great composition with the smoke.

I was gonna have a go at critiquing this image and the manipulation, but after reading all the b.s. above, I think I'll just say that Bill and Monica would have probably liked it, and let it go at that.

I like the execution. Putting the images together smoothly is a difficult task.

Putting the two separate images together smoothly was easy with a black background - the fact they were both shot on 4x5 Fuji Chrome - and ALL the manipulation of the focus on the girl AND the smoke around her - was done IN CAMERA - THAT was the tricky part. Except for blending around her feet there was no other PS manipulation. Furthermore - if you could see a high rez ( the orign scans were on a drum scanner at 300 megs each) you'd see the smoke blending at cigar/girl is perfect.