apparition

I appreciate constructive critiques. Thanks for viewing and commenting.

I think it's cool. Is it smoke? I love working with smoke. You can see alot of differnt images of people/souls whatever you want to see. There is alot, particularly in this one. I have to comment on this because I am fascinated by the way it came out. Nice

Thank you very much for your nice comment. yes, it's smoke. actually, it's the smoke from my cigarette. I was smoking near my table lamp the other day when I suddenly noticed smoke hovering ethereally under the lampshade. it was very cool because it was graceful. It sparked an idea in me. I grabbed my camera and started puffing smoke under the lamp shade. I practically shot hundreds of forms before I got some pleasant ones. I shoot Raw, so I was able to easily control the tint, saturation,shade,contrast,and white balance. The color you see here is exaggerated warm white balance. I then added several High pass sharpening layers, cloned out the jarring remains of some object in the background, and cropped the result. The rest of the images are in my smoke-and-light-interplay folder. You may like to take a peek.

Looks like 3D to me; very well captured and excellent details! Regards, Catalin

Nice to have your wise words accompanying my image. You are my credit for this shot.

a very complicated object (?? or whatever it is)...fascinating.

 

Dave