"X-Ray Alien"

details best viewed @ X-Large
First I'd like to Thank You all for the wonderful response to yesterdays smoke art piece & step by step I did. I'm glad that so many of you enjoyed it & were interested in the instructions and possibly trying this technique out, it is after all a lot of fun and pretty simple to do once you do it once. I just wanted to clear up the concern about using 2 lights, you do NOT need to use 2 off camera lights for this, you can use a single with great results. I had done this with one flash until now without any problems & just added the 2nd to try something new, you just replace the second flash with a reflector piece opposite the flash unit pointing some light back into the set so you get the 3D effect of the light bouncing off the rear of the smoke and your golden. For Nikon users with the iTTL Creative wireless flash system you can also use 1 off camera flash and then utilize your pop up flash unit on the camera set at a low power instead of just using it as a master / trigger to fill in the front of the smoke as well. Any questions fire away and I'll assist you.

I did another piece tonight using 4 different smoke shots that I duplicated, flipped, layered & blended together, using the same techniques as yesterdays. This one turned out really cool creating several ALIEN faces & 1 whole alien figure in the middle looking like he's doing jumping jacks. Look behind & under him and you'll see several more alien faces staring straight at you. View this at X-Large to see all the details in this one guys, it's really cool IMO and what you see is ALL SMOKE as shot, nothing has been manipulated besides the colors and some minor dodging & burning to bring out some of the depth in certain areas. I only spent about 30 minutes from start to finish so as you can see it's not a huge project and can be done quite quickly.

"HERE'S THE BEGINING OF THIS PIECE"
If you'd like to see what the raw beginings of this image look like I placed the raw images as a small collage in my Extras gallery so you have an idea of how simple this starts off as and what a little work in CS3 can do to create an artistic piece.
SEE RAW IMAGES CLICK HERE

"MY Nikon SB-900 SpeedLight Review is Complete & Posted"

You can check it out on my blog located here: http://billpadorphoto.blogspot.com/ ~. . . Enjoy the read & the music !~

Have a Great Hump Day (Wed.) folks your half way to the weekend !
~Bill~

"X-Ray Alien"

details best viewed @ X-Large
First I'd like to Thank You all for the wonderful response to yesterdays smoke art piece & step by step I did. I'm glad that so many of you enjoyed it & were interested in the instructions and possibly trying this technique out, it is after all a lot of fun and pretty simple to do once you do it once. I just wanted to clear up the concern about using 2 lights, you do NOT need to use 2 off camera lights for this, you can use a single with great results. I had done this with one flash until now without any problems & just added the 2nd to try something new, you just replace the second flash with a reflector piece opposite the flash unit pointing some light back into the set so you get the 3D effect of the light bouncing off the rear of the smoke and your golden. For Nikon users with the iTTL Creative wireless flash system you can also use 1 off camera flash and then utilize your pop up flash unit on the camera set at a low power instead of just using it as a master / trigger to fill in the front of the smoke as well. Any questions fire away and I'll assist you.

I did another piece tonight using 4 different smoke shots that I duplicated, flipped, layered & blended together, using the same techniques as yesterdays. This one turned out really cool creating several ALIEN faces & 1 whole alien figure in the middle looking like he's doing jumping jacks. Look behind & under him and you'll see several more alien faces staring straight at you. View this at X-Large to see all the details in this one guys, it's really cool IMO and what you see is ALL SMOKE as shot, nothing has been manipulated besides the colors and some minor dodging & burning to bring out some of the depth in certain areas. I only spent about 30 minutes from start to finish so as you can see it's not a huge project and can be done quite quickly.

"HERE'S THE BEGINING OF THIS PIECE"
If you'd like to see what the raw beginings of this image look like I placed the raw images as a small collage in my Extras gallery so you have an idea of how simple this starts off as and what a little work in CS3 can do to create an artistic piece.
SEE RAW IMAGES CLICK HERE

"MY Nikon SB-900 SpeedLight Review is Complete & Posted"

You can check it out on my blog located here: http://billpadorphoto.blogspot.com/ ~. . . Enjoy the read & the music !~

Have a Great Hump Day (Wed.) folks your half way to the weekend !
~Bill~