smoke composites

i composited some of those smoke images and got these. easy. all you do is duplicate the image, flip or rotate the layer over the original, flatten, levels, done.

smoke

i've been up all night playing with some incense (fantasy garden black magic). my apartment's smelling a bit spicy, but man i'm happy with what i got. to do these i set up a 5-8 second exposure then, when the smoke looked good i flashed from the side with an old vivitar 2600-d.

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