First attempt at Smoke

It almost looks like a swimmer to me swimming from right to left. Shame can see insense stick and spurious smoke on right hand side.

But great first attempt and look forward to seeing more. Cant wait to try it myself.
 
Thanks Bryn,

Agree should have cropped out the smoke on the right, i quite like that the stick is in shot but only half lit up :)

Thanks for taking the time to post
 
Andy! :)
Rather good first attempt!
If I was to offer critique and make suggestions, I think your blacks have been too overprocessed / raised too high.
What's happened is that there's a loss of definition within the smoke. It may not have been caused by overprocessing the blacks, but thats what happened when I pushed mine too far.

How did you light it? I used the youtube guide linked to in my inspiration thread. Basically flashgun to the right, lamp to the left, background in the distance with no light falling on it. I then had to nudge the blacks a bit more in processing.

Does that make sense?
 
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